Success is not a straight line. It's a squiggly line. Adam Grant

The objective is not to be the best; it's to get better. The person you're competing with is your past self, and the bar you're setting is for your future self. Adam Grant

Character is not revealed by how many setbacks you face. It's forged by how you face them. Adam Grant

Mistakes don't make you a failure. They make you a learner. Adam Grant

The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived. Leo Rosten

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success if the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. Jim Rohn

What we call luck is often not purely random, but rather the delayed byproduct of consistently putting yourself in good positions. James Clear

The person who approaches a problem like an opportunity has an advantage that the person who sees an obstacle will never understand. Shane Parrish

Getting what you want out of life largely boils down to the story you tell yourself and where you direct your attention. James Clear

The grit that matters most is learning to be your best when you're at your worst. This is really the difference between elite-level performers and everyone else. If you can do this, what you discover is real power. Josh Waitzkin

Our instincts are almost always right and our ideas are usually wrong. Mark Pincus

The people who chase being "the most interesting person in the room" are rarely the most useful. Anyone can put attention on themselves, but only the most useful can listen, connect, and solve problems. Shane Parrish

Movement unlocks everything. Paolo Priolo

Compete against yourself. When you look outside, there is always something to blame. When you look inside, there is always something to improve. Average looks out. Elite looks in. James Clear

What reading and writing and processing information is supposed to do is change you. Ezra Klein

Exceptional results happen when people are willing to give direct feedback and to hear it. Shane Parrish

People who get an unusual amount of work done are maniacal about removing things from their lives that others tolerate. Shane Parrish

When you are creating something, you will usually find that once things appear 90 percent done, you are actually about halfway there. But you have to create the first 90 percent in order to see the half that needs to be revised. James Clear

Self-care creates impact. Your body and mind are the most valuable tools you have to produce anything. Neglecting them puts a ceiling on everything else. Shane Parrish

If you're selling, your job isn't to sell, it's to build trust. Naval Ravikant

Tradeoffs are inevitable, and no one can tell you which one you should accept in order to live a happy life. And part of the fun is learning which ones are the ones that make your life better. Manuel Moreale

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Will Durant

Most success comes from 50 small things moving in the same direction, not one big thing. Shane Parrish

I think we have to nurture optimism. We have to reward optimism. We have to be irrationally optimistic, because that's the only way out. Naval Ravikant

The people who show up for you when you need them are never the ones you tried to impress. They're the people you helped when there was nothing in it for you. Shane Parrish

Improvement is being better than your past self. It doesn't have to be more complicated than that. Do not compare against others, compare against your past self. Keep the focus internal. James Clear

When you show someone you believe in them, they have much higher odds of being great. Mario Harik

The bar isn't beating the competition. The bar is: are we achieving the best we can achieve? Mario Harik

A lot of leaders spend time on the output. You've got to spend time on the inputs. Mario Harik

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life: think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way of success. Swami Vivekananda

Champions behave like champions before they're champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners. Bill Walsh

You don't have to make it back the way that you lost it. Warren Buffett

So much of what we believe is the residue of someone else's thinking. Pause and question things for a moment. Is this really how it has to be? Is this really what you want? James Clear

Be the most human person in the room. David Armano

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Action produces information. If you're unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it's the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Brian Armstrong

90% of success is not getting distracted. Shane Parrish

I follow three rules: do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. Lou Holtz

Questions are answered as you move, not before you move. James Clear

You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns. James Clear

Success is creating dramatically more value for the world than you create for yourself. Vlad Tenev

The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting. Charlie Munger

One of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position. Shane Parrish

When you need clarity, subtract. James Clear

Business is growth. You grow or you die. Phil Knight

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life. Naval Ravikant

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

My brain is powered by my legs. Naval Ravikant

Success is having a positive impact on other people's lives. Nicolai Tangen

If you have really high ambitions, you achieve great things even if you fail. If you have low ambitions, you achieve nothing even if you succeed. Nicolai Tangen