“Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.”

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.

Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.

The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

Don’t conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

The thing that’s worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to worry too much about there being no meaning.