You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.

When you’re healthy you have 10000 needs, but when you’re sick you only have one need.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich.

We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great.

No one is going to value you more than you value yourself. 

"If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right."

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

“Teach me how I should forget to think.” 

 “Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.” 

 “Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.” 

“All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”

 “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.”

 “Knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow’s eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.