My way of fighting the competition is the positive approach. Stress your own strengths, emphasize quality, service, cleanliness, and value, and the competition will wear itself out trying to keep up. I've seen it happen many times.
- from Grinding It Out book by Ray Kroc
Everything that has happened and everything that will happen has had and will have determinants that make it happen. If we can understand those determinants, we can understand how the machine works and anticipate what will likely be coming at us next.
- from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio
If it looks too good to be true, it is. There is no free lunch. Not ever.
- from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
No know-it-all gets under your skin like a young know-it-all.
- from The Lincoln Highway book by Amor Towles
Stop managing your time and start managing your focus.
- from The 5 AM Club book by Robin Sharma
Privilege is being born on third base. Ignorant privilege is thinking you're there because you hit a triple. Malicious privilege is complaining that those starving outside the ballpark aren't waiting patiently enough.
- from Untamed book by Glennon Doyle
If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell
I've learned that being successful without feeling soulful is the highest of defeats.
- from The 5 AM Club book by Robin Sharma
Time is a vicious dictator, inflexible, inexorable - and ultimately always the victor.
- Arthur Sackler, from Empire of Pain book by Patrick Radden Keefe
Poker, unlike quite any other game, mirrors life. It isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Like the world we inhabit, it consists of an inextricable joining of the two. Poker stands at the fulcrum that balances two oppositional forces in our lives - chance and control.
- from The Biggest Bluff book by Maria Konnikova