“Many a false step was made by standing still.”

Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.

If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

Learn to be difficult when it counts.

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

If I’m scared and I’m a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away. I was there buck naked, humiliated, sitting in my own crap and urine – this is a metaphor. My ego had run off. Your ego is the biggest coward.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.