Proper meditation—proper examination—should ruin the life that you're currently living. It should cause you to leave relationships. It should cause you to re-establish boundaries with family members and colleagues. It should cause you to quit your job. It should cause you to change your eating patterns ... If it doesn't do that, it's not real... See more

You're not going to get rich renting out your time

You don't want to be the guy who succeeds in life while being high-strung, high-stress, and unhappy while leaving a trail of emotional wreckage for you and your loved ones

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.

You're going to learn a lot more about running a business by actually operating your own business, compared to just reading about how to do so

The smaller the company you work for, the happier you'll be

What you do, who you do it with, and how you do it are way more important than how hard you work.

The cost of meetings is so high especially given all the people who are in there... you're literally just dying an hour at a time. So you have to just drop non-urgent meetings or forget them all together if you want to do anything great.

The modern environmental movement identifies the correct problem, but doesn't come up with the right set of solutions that are appealing to people