I’m scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man’s way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

Games are all about taking risks.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

Don’t time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don’t bookmark pages you’ve already read.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

I’m invested in about 13 private companies. I’ve advised probably another 50 private companies.

It’s hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.

Don’t regret your mistakes. You’ll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, ‘Mom, you can’t believe what I did today. Let me tell you...

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.

Most people don’t have the power of persuasion.

Don’t stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want – freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will...

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

I want every idea I have to make me money. I want every post I write to have 10,000 Facebook likes. I want every talk I give to have people laughing at all the right...

The first rule of personal finance is that it’s not personal and it’s not financial. It’s about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent...

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

Being a leader doesn’t mean you are the guy who runs things.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

I’ve had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in...

You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

Mistakes I’ve made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

Being a leader doesn’t mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom’s side who snuck in in a suitcase.

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

Don’t sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to...

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every ‘world’ I’ve been in, most people I’ve meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is...

Worry will never solve tomorrow’s problems. It will only take energy away from today.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.