Do What Matters

The older I get, the more I think outstanding taste in people is the only real alpha.

Brian Halligan

What you say about yourself is forgotten. What you do for others compounds. Serve people well, and their word about you will travel further than yours ever could.

Shane Parrish

The best seek out the details.

Shane Parrish

The greatest risk is underinvesting in what works.

Shane Parrish

Obsession isn't a problem. It's an advantage.

Shane Parrish

Discipline prevails over fury.

Niccolò Machiavelli

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Stanley Kubrick

Do a few things. Do them perfectly.

Ray Croc

Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle you can sustain and that allows you to make daily progress on the areas that matter.

James Clear

Success is often found by practicing the fundamentals everyone knows they should be doing, but find too boring or basic to practice routinely.

James Clear

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion, or jealousy.

Dalai Lama

What looks like success is often just patience.

Shane Parrish

The truest form of intelligence is designing the life you want to live.

Graham Weaver

Discipline is not a lack of freedom, it is a harmonious relationship with time.

Rick Rubin

Don't ruminate, activate.

James Clear

Your first task is to find what feels effortless to you. Your second task is to put maximum effort into it.

James Clear

If you aren't getting happier as you get older, you're doing it wrong.

Naval Ravikant

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

Kenya Hara

There's an infinite amount of materials with which to build our lives—but sometimes the best way to build is to subtract.

Joshua Fields Millburn

We need to aim at essential things, removing every redundant effect, every useless flowering. Elaborating a concept on mathematical bases, on fundamental ideas, on elementary structures. We strongly need to avoid waste and excess.

AG Fronzoni

There are two ways to grow: by adding or by shedding. Do you need to add something or do you need to shed something?

James Clear

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

Patricia Highsmith

You can't make time go faster or success come sooner. The only thing you can control is the next action.

James Clear

Intensity makes for a good story. Consistency makes for good results.

Shane Parrish

A lack of patience changes the outcome.

Shane Parrish

The fundamental algorithm of life is to repeat what works and stop what doesn't.

Shane Parrish

The patience you need for big things is developed by your patience with the little things.

Kevin Kelly

You have to do the work wrong many times before you discover how to do it right.

Shane Parrish

Nearly everything awesome takes longer than you think. Get started and don't worry about the clock.

James Clear

Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that—well, lucky you.

Philip Roth