"Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet."
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"Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do."
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"Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity."
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"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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"The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list."
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"I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control."
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"People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy."
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"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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"Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects."
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"I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming."
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"The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficult, the most crowded... I'm a top 1,000 blogger, not a top 100 blogger, and I get hundreds of pitches by email every week. Most of them I don't even see because my assistant declines them."
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"Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions."
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"It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them."
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"Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it."
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"Don't suffer fools or you'll become one."
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"Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."
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"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom."
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"Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs."
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"I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical."
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"The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits."
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