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    $1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

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    Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.

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    A friend of mine, Derek Simmons, who's been on the podcast, said, "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with perfect dads." It comes down to motivation and incentives. If it isn't a punishment or a reward, then it's just talk.

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    After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

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    A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

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    Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

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    An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

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    A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

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    A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

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    As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.

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    At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.

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    At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

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    Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

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    Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.

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    Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

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    Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

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    Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

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    Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

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    Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

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    But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.

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    But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

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    By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!

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    By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

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    Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?

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    Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.

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    Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

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    Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

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    Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.

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    Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

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    Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

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    Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

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    Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend.

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    Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

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    Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

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    Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

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    Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

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    Focus on being productive instead of busy.

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    Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.

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    Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

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    Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.

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    Exercise is overrated.

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    Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.

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    Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

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    Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

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    For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

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    For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.

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    For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

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    For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

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    Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

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    Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.