Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

Don’t buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say ‘No’ to you.

Honesty is about the scars. It’s about the blemishes. But it’s more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It’s about truly helping people.

Somebody has to be on stage, and some people have to be in the audience. That’s the only difference. Don’t put any thought as to why you are on the stage or how you need...

You can only make money doing what you love.

I saw ‘Star Wars’ when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.

Here’s what a phone is: It’s a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

You’re the average of the five people you spend your time with.

Products are valued higher than services.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into...

You’ll have to hire people to expand your business. But it’s a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It’s the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity.It’s the power...

I’ve had lots of ups and downs. I’ve had situations where I’ve gone against the rules, and I’ve lost everything.

How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don’t have to.

You can’t make money without selling something real. You can’t make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can’t have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to...

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It’s not who we are.

I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don’t go up.

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

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.