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Take a minute and think about what you do day in and day out. Are your daily activities maximizing your true potential? If not, make a plan.
Discipline, Habits, and Daily Practice
Better bored than busy.
— Naval RavikantDiscipline, Habits, and Daily Practice
People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.
— Naval RavikantDiscipline, Habits, and Daily Practice
Don't think about it, just start doing it. The more you think about it, the more reasons you will give yourself not to do it.
Discipline, Habits, and Daily Practice
The quality of your goals is the quality of the people you attract.
Discipline, Habits, and Daily Practice
Long-term thinkers who have the discipline to stick to their vision always win. It is not an if, it is a when.
Discipline, Habits, and Daily Practice
Live each day with courage. Take pride in your work. Always finish what you start. When you make a promise, keep it. Talk less, say more. Some things are not for sale.
— Jim RohnDiscipline, Habits, and Daily Practice
Live like no one else does when you are young, so you can live like no one else can later in life.
Discipline, Habits, and Daily Practice
Most friends are not friends, they are acquaintances. Friends phone you out of the blue because they want to hear your voice. Friends would drive you to the emergency room at three in the morning. Friends are the family you choose.
People, Society, and Relationships
Focus on the long term and on relationships. You never know the power of a relationship, so treat everyone like they are the greatest.
— Brandon FugalPeople, Society, and Relationships
The most important relationship you have is with yourself.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
The first rule of handling conflict is do not hang around with people who are constantly engaging in conflict.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
If you cannot see yourself working with someone for life, do not work with them for a day.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
Pay attention to people's patterns of behavior. They are better guides than their words.
People, Society, and Relationships
Surround yourself with people who are ruthlessly devoted to becoming their greatest selves.
People, Society, and Relationships
Do not complain about the nature of people. Understand it and leverage it in order to live the life you want.
— Orange BookPeople, Society, and Relationships
If you wouldn't say it to their face, then don't say it to them on social media.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
I don't believe in hierarchical relationships. If I can't treat someone like a peer, and they can't treat me like one, I just don't want to interact with them.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
The larger the group, the worse the conversation.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
It is becoming easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
The goal of media is to make every problem your problem.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
By bringing the world together, social media is tearing it apart.
People, Society, and Relationships
The most common answer to what made someone the best leader people ever worked for was simply: they cared about me.
People, Society, and Relationships
Find the people, the business, the project, and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you.
— Naval RavikantPeople, Society, and Relationships
Never take responsibility for something you have no control over.
— Mary SnowPeople, Society, and Relationships