- Never ever force something ambitious to happen.
- Don’t become someone. Become yourself.
- Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.
- Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue.
- Being great is just being consistently good.
- Find the hacks and the people that will make the long term feel like fun to you and you will win.
- You have to choices to reach peace. Either you play the games, win them, realize it and stop playing. Set the definition of what winning means early on. Or you decide to not wanting it. Not wanting something is as good as having it.
- “The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergei Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.” - Peter Thiel
- You want to be famous, you want to be known, you want people to talk about you in the whole world because, deep inside, you’re no one. There is no richness inside of you, there is nothing inside of you – so you want to be famous in the outside world. But if you reach inside, you don’t care about being known or unknown.
- Don’t try to be the best at one thing. Be in the top 25% at two or more things.
- The biggest mistake you can make is to accept the norms of your time.
- Success can be its own failure.
- What stands in the way becomes the way. When trying to achieve something, you can choose to look at obstacles as indications of where you should put your efforts on — not as excuses to stop pursuing your goal.
- Love what you do. Don’t do it for ambition.
- What are you the most afraid to fail at?
- Unfortunately, if you want to do new things, you'll face a force more powerful than other people's skepticism: your own skepticism.
- The most successful people are slightly overconfident.
- Spiritual or material ambition comes with anxiety and fear. It doesn’t pave the road to a clear, simple, direct and therefore intelligent mind.
- Always trade ambition for love.
- To be popular, add to the consensus/narrative. To help society leave it behind and explore.