A collection of words that stuck with me.
“Never accept a private apology for a public disrespect. They chose the audience and the stage, so you return the lesson at the exact same place. Disrespect given publicly must be answered publicly. Anything less teaches them you are safe to disrespect again.”
“You can't really be friends with someone who has even a hint of jealousy about your work or anything about your life.”
“During a meal with more than 3 people, don't speak private matters. With more than 5 people, never speak business. And never discuss your past with close friends, because close friends have other close friends. The people who speak together eat together, and guess who is the topic.”
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“A lion doesn't roar before the hunt, it roars after the hunt. Don't let them see you coming.”
“A bee doesn't waste its energy trying to convince a fly that honey is better than shit. Some minds are not meant to be changed. Save your energy for what actually matters.”
“Stay humble, but let them know you could ruin everything if you wanted to.”
“While investing you make money on the buy.”
“I demand high standards because what I ask for, I can also provide.”
“Don't start a new chapter if there are still words left in the old one.”
“Learn to go short. Or be ready to be bankrupt.”
“Still water doesn't necessarily mean calmness.”
“Real peace is in giving up things and not acquiring things.”
“Start ups fail. Founders don't.”
“Talent is the ability to hit the target no one else can. Genius hits the target no one else can see.”
“Impatience with actions. Patience with results.”
“Billionaire is a state of mind.”
“Life has to be lived in forward but only makes sense in reverse.”
“Nice to be important but more important to be nice.”
“What you are not changing you are choosing.”
“How long will you put off doing what you are capable of doing just to continue doing what you are comfortable doing?”
“How cheap is your happiness?”
“Most human worries comes from trying to please others.”
“If you are going through hell, keep going. Why would you stop in hell?”
“If you try to catch butterflies. They'll keep flying. But if you tend to your garden, they'll come on their own.”
“No matter how rudely the question was put to you, always answer respectfully. History will remember your answer not the question.”
“In order to start a new chapter of your life you need to stop re reading the old one.”
“Be curious not judgemental.”
“We don't build trust by offering help. We build trust by asking for it.”
“Someone with half your IQ is making 10x more because they aren't smart enough to doubt themselves.”
“Fastest way to kill something is by comparing it with something else.”
“You will stop fighting the waves when you know you are the ocean.”
“Escape competition through authenticity.”
“Your maximum doesn't even reach my minimum.”
“Insecurities comes out of scarcity.”
“If you see me in a fight with a bear. Pray for the bear.”
“You find the people you love and then do life with them.”
“What is your decadal game?”
“Does your behaviour fit your future goals?”
“It is not about the destination or the journey, but what you become during the journey.”
“Everyone wants the view, but no one wants the climb.”
“Two most important days in your life is the day you are born and the day you figure out why.”
“You will never impress someone above you with assets, only people below you.”
“Buy time like a rich person. Buy things like a poor person.”
“If you have a problem with me text me. If you don't have my number, you don't know me well enough to have a problem with me.”
“If you have people who love you unconditionally and financial security, you have an obligation to speak your mind.”
“Deserve before you aspire.”
“Extremely smart people know exactly when to look stupid.”
“Happiness is peace in motion and peace is happiness at rest.”
“You always have a choice. So choose wisely.”
“If you pray for flowers don't be surprised if it starts to rain.”
“Incentives drives actions.”
“We judge ourselves by our intentions but others on their actions.”
“Detachment isn't that you own nothing. It is that nothing owns you.”
“Don't believe your own bullshit.”
“Bias for action.”
“Just do the most interesting thing in life. Shit works out eventually.”
“It always seems too late.”
“What would I do if I wasn't afraid of failing?”
“You don't decide your future. You decide your habits.”
“Don't eat with people you won't starve with.”
“It is not about what happens to you. It is about how you respond.”
“Add life to days not days to life.”
“Sun doesn't forget a village just because it is small. So does karma.”
“Be ready to walk away from a negotiation. Otherwise you are just pleading.”
“You don't rise to the goals that you have. You fall to the systems you create.”
“Trust is earned in drops but lost in buckets.”
“Rich people don't get impressed by things you have. They get impressed by how rich you will be.”
“If you want to make a billion dollars you will have to endure a billion dollars worth of pain.”
“Discipline is remembering what I said I wanted.”
“Dream the impossible.”
“Stay small enough long enough, and you will be big enough soon enough.”
“It is impossible to live the right life with the wrong friends.”
“Kahan ja raha hu? Aukat ke bahar!”