“A man or a woman is known by the company they keep.”

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.

Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.

Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.

Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.

Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.

Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.

The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.

Stop and reflect on your life regularly. Pressing the pause button to practise gratitude is the way to make it a constant in your life.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters. Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

The eyes are the window to the soul,

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Behind the smiles, everyone is going through personal struggles we know nothing about.

What great men do, common men follow.

Fight the strong urge to judge someone based on an initial interaction with them. Everyone has a fascinating story that we know nothing about.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one’s companion.

If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.

You don’t build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can’t beat the credit card companies at their own game.

If I was going to go into an office I wanted it to be with people I would choose to be around even if we didn’t have to work together and so that was one of the major reasons why I decided out of all the different companies we invested in to work with Zappos.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Jump. See whose at the bottom when you land on your feet.

You’re not alone in anything that you’ve done.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.