“I believe that for the most part, achieving success – whatever that is for you – is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.”

I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense.

That’s what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.

School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

Most people have a hard time confronting their weaknesses in a really straightforward, evidence-based way. They also have problems speaking frankly to others. Some people love knowing about their weaknesses and mistakes and those of others because it helps them be so much better, while others can’t stand it.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don’t is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively.

Everyone has to decide for themselves what works for them and their organization.

There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

Watch out for people who think it’s embarrassing not to know.

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it’s silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

There is nothing to fear from truth….Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else’s eyes, it’s like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

There are far more good answers “out there” than there are in you.

Treat your life like a game.

Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

When you help sportspersons achieve their full potential, you propel the sporting quotient of the entire country.

Anyone can be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organization does.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.