Tolerate fools, understand fools, and exploit fools.
The less you want something, the less you’re thinking about it, the less you’re obsessing over it, the more you’re going to do it in a natural way. The more you’re going to do it for yourself. You’re going to do it in a way you’re good at, and you’re going to stick with it. The people around you will see the quality of your work is higher. ...
Think about what product or service society wants but does not yet know how to get. You want to become the person who delivers it and delivers it at scale. That is really the challenge of how to make money. Now, the problem is becoming good at whatever “it” is. It moves around from generation to generation, but a lot of it happens to be in technology. ...
The most interesting and the most important form of leverage is the idea of products that have no marginal cost of replication. This is the new form of leverage. This was only invented in the last few hundred years. It started with the printing press. It accelerated with broadcast media, and now it’s really blown up with the internet and with coding. Now, you can multiply your efforts without involving other humans and without needing money from other humans. ...
Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay. If you have independence and you’re accountable on your output, as opposed to your input—that’s the dream. A leveraged worker can out-produce a non-leveraged worker by a factor of one thousand or ten thousand. With a leveraged worker, judgment is far more important than how much time they put in or how hard they work. ...
If I do my job right, if I create value for society, society says, “Oh, thank you. We owe you something in the future for the work you did in the past. Here’s a little IOU. Let’s call that money.”
Wealth is the thing you want. Wealth is the factory, the robots, cranking out things. Wealth is the computer program that’s running at night, serving other customers. Wealth is even money in the bank that is being reinvested into other assets, and into other businesses. Even a house can be a form of wealth, because you can rent it out, although that’s probably a lower productivity use of land than some commercial enterprise. So, my definition of wealth is much more businesses and assets that can earn while you sleep. ...
Leverage comes in labor, comes in capital, or it can come through code or media.
If you don’t own a piece of a business, you don’t have a path towards financial freedom.
It’s ownership versus wage work. If you are paid for renting out your time, even lawyers and doctors, you can make some money, but you’re not going to make the money that gives you financial freedom. You’re not going to have passive income where a business is earning for you while you are on vacation. Without ownership, your inputs are very closely tied to your outputs. In almost any salaried job, even one paying a lot per hour like a lawyer or a doctor, you’re still putting in the hours, and every hour you get paid. ...
You should to know the problem exactly.
Make something people want . . . There’s nothing more valuable than an unmet need that is just becoming fixable. If you find something broken that you can fix for a lot of people, you’ve found a gold mine.
Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games. You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity—a piece of a business—to gain your financial freedom. ...
大目标比小目标更易于实现，因为问题无法完全挡住你看向大目标的视线。 成功人士总是懂得将自己置于一个“必需的”情境，不实现目标，就永远不会快乐。 当你为自己设立了极限，你就会设法达到你的极限。 你不仅仅要对自己的失败承担责任，也要对你的成功承担责任。 你如果认为成功是不可重复的，就失去了提升自我价值的机会。 一个付出 110 ％努力，主动摒弃所有借口的人，势必取得成功。 你需要一位好教练，一位能够借助自身经验最大化地激发你才能的人。 最先关注自身劣势的人是不会得到财富的。 比赛是消极防御还是主动进攻，两者之间有着天壤之别。 多少人失去了生活的乐趣和变得富有的机会，就是因为他们极力想消除自身的劣势。 你必须为获得财富付出的代价是时间。 但这与你通过财富挣得的时间是不可同日而语的。 财富使你能平心静气地、不带金钱顾虑地思考人生的意义。 ...
能量贴士通过每天写成功日记来建立自己的自信心。 • 我们的自信心决定了我们是否敢于冒险。 • 不去冒险便不可能获得成长。 • 我们的思想意识、我们受到的教育、我们周围的环境，总体来看不利于我们自信心的培育。健全的自我评估意味着自信。成功日记会使你意识到自己有多优秀。 • 写日记时，你学会了去注意自己的长处。 • 在一段时间之后，你就会开始发现自己的长处并想：这件事我可以把它写进我的成功日记里。 • 我们的期望决定我们会获得什么。我们的自信又决定我们的期望。 ...
将你的事业建立在你最大的爱好之上。用你的爱好来赚钱。花点时间分析一下，你真正感兴趣的是什么、你的才能在哪方面，之后你才有可能从事一份自己既感兴趣又能赚钱的工作。 ...
As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. —HARRINGTON EMERSON
只有当你出售股票的时候，你才会亏损。如果你保留着这些股份，将来可能会有人愿意付更多的钱来买进。”“那么这段时间里我就什么也得不到？”我很想知道一切。“不，在这期间，你参与所有的分红。”老太太马上打消了我的疑虑，“每当公司赢利，就会把利润分配给所有持有股份的人，这叫红利。”“也就是说，马塞尔必须定时从他的收入中拿出一部分，交给我们？”莫尼卡兴奋地问。“公司要每年计算一次赢利，然后再决定把这些钱用来做什么。比如可以用一部分钱购买新设备，让公司运作得更好，其余部分分配给所有持有股份的人。” ...
这也就是你还没有找到机会的原因。不去寻找机会的人，最多不过是在走运的时候捡到天上掉下来的馅饼。你只需要去找合适的机会就够了，把注意力放在他所知道、能做以及拥有的东西上，而我却在想我家周围没有敬老院，这样做显然是不明智的，何况钱钱已经一再提醒过我应该怎么做了。 ...
你的自信程度决定了你是否相信自己的能力，是否相信你自己。假如你根本不相信你能做到的话，那么你就根本不会动手去做，而假如你不开始去做，那么你就什么也得不到。 ...
很多人经常把一生的时间都用来考虑他们不知道、不能做或没有的东西上。第一，为别人解决一个难题，那么你就能赚到许多钱；第二，把精力集中在你知道的、能做的和拥有的东西上。 ...