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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Execution Ideas Passion Steal
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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Best Big Competition Goal Inspirational Motivational
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Failure Happiness People Scare Shadow Uncertain
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.
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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
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Enjoyment Excitement Inspirational Motivational Myself Question
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Average Believe Greatness People
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.
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Consumption Data Eat Information Man Source Value Wrong
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.
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Anxiety Depression Future Past Yourself
If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
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Correct Important Way Yourself
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Assumption Big Smart Time Work
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Accomplishment Distraction Perception Slow
I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Design Fear Head Inspirational Motivational Repeat Tattoo Yourself
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Priority Time
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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Better Improvement Time Yourself

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

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