The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it’s time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path,...

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

I am a sore loser. It’s not that I’m so competitive with others. But I’m competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.

I’m a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that’s part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.

The people who don’t know personal finance have TV shows about it.

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.

When I give away a book for free, it gets my name out there. That has lifelong value for me that goes way beyond the few dollars I could maybe charge.

Don’t forget: when you start a website, it’s not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.

The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That’s how it learns. You don’t have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

The reality is: when you’re slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now, your hands will...

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I’m almost embarrassed to recount them.

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...