A collection of quotes I find meaningful. Updated daily.
December 2025
You don't get things right on the Internet. What you do is you launch and you learn and you iterate and that comes down to speed and it comes down to just doing it.
The 2-step process for exceptional results: Spend a little time each day thinking about the highest leverage activity available to you. Spend a little time each day working on it.
Treat failure like a scientist. Each attempt is an experiment. Each mistake is a clue. You're not failing. You're refining.
One way to stand out is to look for pockets of low competition. Wake up early—less traffic, fewer people. Go deeper or narrower in your field—less noise, more space. People are drawn to where it is crowded. Look for the quiet spaces inside your areas of interest. Excellence often hides at the edges.
Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Virtue begins with understanding and is fulfilled by courage. We must begin by seeing ourselves and the world in a new way… then we must fight to be different and fight to stay different.
November 2025
If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason.
Common sense is the least common commodity.
The Paradox of Freedom: The way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to achieve intellectual freedom. The disciplined become the free.
Success is largely the failures you avoid. Health is the injuries you don't sustain. Wealth is the purchases you don't make. Happiness is the objects you don't desire. Peace of mind is the arguments you don't engage. Avoid the bad to protect the good.
Things that aren't doing the thing: Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing. Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading this essay isn't doing the thing.
Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible—one-way doors—and these decisions must be made methodically, carefully, slowly, with great deliberation and consultation.
People perform to the level you inspect, not expect.
Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.
It's not about the big picture. It's about the work on your desk. Do the work in front of you and do it well.