Quote of the Day - QOTD

[Dwight Schrute]

"Hai guyz how do I make money with oil pleaze thx LOL"
- John D. Rockefeller

"I thought about getting into the aviation industry. Should I learn to build planes??"
- Sir Richard Branson

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."
- Genghis Khan

"YOLO!!!!"
- The Wright Brothers

 

[MTF]

Advice that has changed everything for me:

To hit the top of your game, business or otherwise, you have to eat, live, and shit your thing. If you’re dabbling in 10 different things, your results will be dabbling and unimpressive. Focus on one thing and do it in the most excellent way.

By the one and only @MJ DeMarco.

 

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[jon.a]

'A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.'

Winston S. Churchill

props to @Andy Black for making me remember this one.

 

[Argue]

Be obsessed.

 

[G-Man]

The fishing tackle manufacturer I knew had all these flashy green and purple lures. I asked, ‘Do fish take these?’ ‘Charlie’, he said, ‘I don’t sell these lures to fish.’ - Charlie Munger

 

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[jon.a]

Aim to live your life as its SOLE OWNER, not as a lessee subordinate to a mortgage, a job, a career, an existence. Leave proud, and with few regrets.

@MJ DeMarco

 

[jon.a]

Wealth isn't measured by how much money you have. Wealth is measured by how far you are from financial stress.

@V8Bill

 

[MetalGear]

 

[jon.a]

If it's hard, it's because you're making it hard.
@The-J

 

[ApparentHorizon]

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

 

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[Nacho]

"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, then you will be successful."

 

[Buickestate]

My biggest fear is that after I die, my wife will sell off my cars and parts for what I told her I paid for them......

unknown

 

[marklov]

"First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win."

-Mahatma Gandhi

 

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[Longinus]

“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.” - Tim Ferriss

"Everyone is self-made, but only the successful will admit it." - unknown

“Life is too short to learn German.” - Oscar Wilde

 

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[Dwight Schrute]

"The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones." - Chinese proverb

 

[Daniel A]

"I like to spend time around people who have larger futures than pasts." - Dean Graziosi


And the amazing thing is that this forum is full of people who fit that description.

 

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[Dwight Schrute]

"Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get."
-Dale Carnegie​

 

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[Buickestate]

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt

 

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[Kreedos Phoenix]

A personal favorite of mine. I keep it visible as a reminder to stay engaged and execute, consistently.

 

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[blueoceanblues]

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

 

[Dwight Schrute]

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it.

Rather, it's that we aim too low and we reach it."

- Michelangelo​

 

[Supa]

 

[Bellini]

"What you get from others makes you a living, but what you give to others makes you a life"

 

[Fox]

On spending money on mentors, self improvement and gurus:

I invest in relationships. Relationships don't cost me money, they make me money.

- jon.a

... I love this, very powerful perspective

 

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[samsara]

"If you're a true entrepreneur, a good salary won't be enough to keep you from pursuing your goals."

@JScott

Left the corporate world in 2008, as did my wife. Not working 12 more months cost us nearly seven figures in salary, retention bonuses and stock options, but we've never regretted the decision or timing...

If you're a true entrepreneur, a good salary won't be enough to keep you from pursuing your goals.

 

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[CaptainAmerica]

I actually found this really motivational...

 

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[SharkWrestler1]

Care what other people think and you will always be their prisoner - Lao Tzu

 

[Bellini]

“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, and carry out their dream.”

- Les Brown

 

[smarty]

A determined and persistent idiot often gets farther in life than a doubtful genius. - (me)

Which in other words means "get off your butt and do things instead of keeping it in your head all day long thinking billions of reasons of why you would fail".

Just today I've seen a channel on Youtube having almost 200K subscribers in about 3 months and all they "produce" is bullshit but entertaining videos - burning a coca-cola, burning a watermelon etc. They never show any face or say any word on camera, just a shitty entertaining video for the boring-masses and a music in the background. Somehow their videos all have 400K+ to 5M+ views. It's about execution and being aware of what's working, what's not working and how to improve.

I couldn't do what they do by the way, because I need it to have some meaning and provide some better value rather than just "helping people waste time". I can't relate much to what they do and couldn't be passionate enough do execute on it, but they do and they get the rewards.

 

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[Dan1el]

"If you aren’t willing to sacrifice your comfort, you don’t have what it takes."