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If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

Remember this phrase: Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight because those are the three things people will pay for.

I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.

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

Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

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

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

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.

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn't a voracious reader.

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.

I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I'm doing it, I won't do my best.

Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.

The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

if you don't make courageous choices for yourself, nobody else will.

This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.

It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

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

Diversification is everything. You get past "this" by having lots of "that"s.

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.

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.

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

entrepreneurs can't use the excuse that "I don't have time, I'm running a business." This is your business.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

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.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

Luck is created by the prepared.

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

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.

Comedians are the best public speakers and are up against the most brutal audiences, so you must study them. Learn from them.

Noticing your reactions to suffering, anger, pain is the key to well-being.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn't have to be limited by anyone else's stupidity unless you allow it to be.

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

Games are all about taking risks.

You can only make money doing what you love.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

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

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

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

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.

Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!

Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight" - because those are the three things people will pay for.

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

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

It's not about yes or no. It's about two people falling in love.

America is a country of fighters. People who fought their way in and then continued fighting.

There were about ten different areas I needed to improve and gradually I improved them all and sold the company a year later. EXPAND THE

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

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

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.

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

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.

But only you can act to change the world with your ideas. If

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Ideas are the dark matter of the universe. We know it's there, but only those "in the know" can see them.

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

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.

You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.

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.

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.

Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

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

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

Each excuse let me learn about myself, let me discover entire worlds of surprising possibilities. Each one led me to more and more love.

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.

perfectionism is sometimes the most dangerous set of thoughts you can let make their home in your head.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

you don't have to worry about "finding" your passion. You're naturally going to get passionate about what you are good at.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

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

Products are valued higher than services.

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

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

And by the way, I know my title said "10 Reasons" and I only listed "6". I didn't learn to count in college.