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"I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company."
"Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner"
"When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely."
"If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important."
"This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious."
"Doing something unimportant well does not make it important."
"Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear."
"Exercise is overrated."
"It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions."
"By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too."
"I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate."
"There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye."
"Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most."
"Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly."
"I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives."
"I think willpower is very valuable."
"For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible."
"The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors."
"What's the worst that could happen?"
"Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe."