“Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.”

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation-without the pestilence of panic or fear.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.

What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

Great times are great softeners.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

You can’t judge a book by its cover, can you?

A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

If my face was covered, I would be useless.

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.