The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

If you could literally just sit for 30 minutes and be happy, you are successful.

Earn with your mind, not your time.

People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.

Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

As long as you can keep taking shots on goal, and you keep getting back up, eventually you’ll get through. Just stick at it.

Guard your time. It’s all you have.

Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.

You have one life. You’re dead for tens of billions of years, and you’re going to be dead for tens of billions of years.

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.

No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.

Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

Hard work is not always something you can see. It is not always physical effort. In fact, the most powerful form of hard work is thinking clearly. Designing a winning strategy may not look very...

Every creative project starts as an imitation. You begin by mapping what you already know or have previously seen onto the situation. But if you iterate and recombine enough, it becomes an original.

A good writer is impatient on behalf of the reader. They ruthlessly eliminate unnecessary information and needless words. They are respectful of the reader’s time by only including what matters.

The hardest part of solving a problem is accurately defining it.

The highest level of mastery is simplicity. Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.

A principle for writing, investing, and life in general: It is much easier to notice when something is working than to predict ahead of time if it will work. Take action, make many small bets,...

The way to attract good luck is to be reliable in a valuable area. The more you repeatedly deliver value, the more people seek you out for that value. Your reputation is a magnet. Once...

Sometimes greatness is the result of a transcendent, peak performance. But often, greatness is simply the result of a good performance repeated and sustained much longer than usual.

Mastery is an endless quest to reduce effort without reducing effectiveness.

The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.

Before you dream about the view from the summit, ask yourself if you’re willing to keep your head down, focus on the path, and spend your life walking up the side of a very big...

The Paradox of Freedom—the way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to...

It’s crazy how you hear the story of The Tortoise and the Hare while growing up, and assume it’s just a nice thing to tell kids—and then you start your career and watch it actually...

Speed matters, but stamina matters even more. Go as fast as possible while staying fully recovered. Go fast. Stay fresh.

Most failures are one-time costs. Most regrets are recurring costs. The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action.

Before you ask for readers, write the article you wish you could read. Before you ask for the sale, create the product you wish you had. Before you need support, be the supportive friend. Before...

Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I’ve got grace management issues.

Authenticity is the gap between your thoughts and your actions. The smaller the gap, the more genuine the lifestyle.

Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

Options reveal themselves after starting. If you feel uncertain in the beginning—join the club. Nobody starts with all the answers. The path to the summit is not fully visible from base camp.

When failure is expensive, plan carefully. When failure is cheap, act quickly.

Optimists solve problems when they arise. Pessimists invent problems before they start.

The fastest way to raise your level of performance: Cut your number of commitments in half.

Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore.

It is not necessary to change a person in order to change their behavior. Just change their environment. Similarly, it is not necessary to change your environment in order to change your behavior—if you can...

Three rules for a career: 1. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3. Work only with people you enjoy.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day—if you live long enough—like most people, you will get...

We’re emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We’re not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

We just keep our heads down and handle the headwinds and tailwinds as best we can, and take the result after a period of years.

As gatekeepers decline, status signals shift from approval-based to performance-based.

My email response time is either 3 minutes or 3 months.

Do not wait. If there is something you wish to do, go do it. Death comes for busy people too. It will not pause and return at a more convenient time.

If you do not like your results in a particular area it is rarely your intellect that deserves the blame, but rather where you have directed your intellect. Results are purchased by how you spend...

Whenever there is a gap between your habits and your goals, your habits will always win.

For ideas to truly stick, we must make contact with them repeatedly.

Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly. Goals are for people who care about winning once

The desire to belong often overpowers the desire to improve.

The more immediate the consequences, the more trustworthy the behavior.