Kevin Kelly

Opportunities spawn from previous success. Locate yourself where you are surrounded by the success of others.

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To start your own successful business you should expect to be under-appreciated, overworked and broke for at least 1000 days.

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The very best way to win a friend is to be one.

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Recipe for greatness: expect much of yourself and little of others.

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Slow progress is still a million times better than no progress.

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Humility is mostly about being very honest about how much you owe to luck.

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In matters of the heart, one moment of patience can save you years of regret.

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If you are impressed with someone’s work, you should tell them, but even better, tell their boss.

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We tend to overrate the value of intelligence. You need to pair your IQ with other virtues. The most important things in life can not be attained through logic only.

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There is no formula for success, but there are two formulas for failure: not trying and not persisting.

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The week between Christmas and New Years was invented to give you the perfect time to sharpen your kitchen knives, vacuum your car, and tidy the folders on your desktop.

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Get good at being corrected without being offended.

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When you think of someone easy to despise—a tyrant, a murderer, a torturer—don’t wish them harm. Wish that they welcome orphans into their home, and share their food with the hungry. Wish them goodness, and by this compassion you will increase your own happiness. #excellentadvice

You can’t call it charity unless no one is watching.

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You’ll never meet a very successful pessimistic person. If you want to be remarkable, get better at being optimistic.

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Every mistake is an opportunity to improvise.

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Decisions like to present themselves as irreversible, like a one-way door. But most deciding points are two-way. Don’t get bogged down by decisions. You can usually back up if needed.

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To clean up your city, sweep your doorstep first.

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Weird but true: If you continually give, you will continually have.

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College is not about grades. No one cares what grades you got in college. College is about exploring. Just try stuff.

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It is impossible to be curious and furious at the same time, so avoid furious.

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Very small things accumulate until they define your larger life. Carefully choose your everyday things.

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When you are right, you are learning nothing.

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Work on your tone. Often ideas are rejected because of the tone of voice they are wrapped in. Humility covers many blemishes.

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Many fail to finish, but many more fail to start. The hardest work in any work is to start. You can’t finish until you start, so get good at starting.

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If you are more fortunate than others, build a longer table rather than a taller fence.

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Small steps matter more when you play a long game because a long horizon allows you to compound small advances into quite large achievements.

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To tell a good story, you must reveal a surprise; otherwise it is just a report.

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The more persistent you are, the more chances you get to be lucky.

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Being envious is a toxin. Instead take joy in the success of others and treat their success as your gain. Celebrating the success of others costs you nothing, and increases the happiness of everyone, including you. #excellentadvice