“When what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine come together, not...

“Bill looked for four characteristics in people. The person has to be smart, not necessarily academically but more from the standpoint of...

“Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum. No teams win championships without making sacrifices and giving their best.” The...

“It’s better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow...

“Blitzscaling is prioritizing speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty.” This book sheds some light on the strategy that some of...

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth....

“We usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our life...

“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities...

“The mistake most of us make in our crucial conversations is we believe that we have to choose between telling the truth and keeping a...

“Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or...

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it.” This book presents an approach to effectiveness...

“Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a...

“Making my bed correctly was not going to be an opportunity for praise. It was expected of me. It was my first task of the day, and doing...

“...there are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time―longer than...

“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not...

“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the...

“When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.” The book brings valuable insights into the...

“In the most dysfunctional organizations, signalling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than...

“I believe that the key to self-sufficiency is breaking free of the mindset that someone, somewhere, owes you something or will come to...

“The Dip is the long slow slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that’s actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want...