Quotex

Keep the main thing the main thing.

The iron rule of nature is: You get what you're rewarded for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. Nevertheless, you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day - if you live long enough - most people get what they deserve.

To get what you want, deserve what you want. Trust, success, and admiration are earned.

Be reliable. Unreliability can cancel out the other virtues.

Work with and under people you admire, and avoid the inverse when at all possible.

You'll be most successful where you're most intensely interested.

Learn the all-important concept of assiduity: Sit down and do it until it's done.

Write your obituary and live it backwards.

The really big opportunities in life will be very few. So when you find a lollapalooza, and you can see it, don't hang back like a timid rabbit. Step boldly and grab it. And don't do it small.

Learn the big ideas in all the disciplines. Pay no heed to sectoral boundaries. And cross-apply like crazy.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage.

Go to sleep each night a little less stupid than you were when you woke up.

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Do what you like and are good at. Three rules for a career: 1. Don't sell anything you wouldn't buy yourself. 2. Don't work for anyone you don't respect and admire. 3. Work only with people you enjoy.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid.

You can only truly solve your problems by removing their root causes, and to do that, you must distinguish the symptoms from the disease.

Recognize that knowing what someone (including you) is like will tell you what you can expect from them.