Dan Sullivan Quotes

When you choose freedom over security, then you embrace a life where you choose exactly what you want, rather than vying for what you think you need.

The difference between the two words ‘need’ and ‘want’ is gargantuan. When you need someone, you lose your independence and agency as a human being. Wanting, on the other hand, is the first step in learning how to love someone. The difference between need and want is the difference between codependence and love.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Everything in life happens FOR you, not TO you.

When you draw on a memory, you always do so from the perspective of your present self. Psychologists call memory a “reconstruction,” because it is always reconstructed based on your present views, which influence how you see and perceive past events.14,15,16 As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., stated, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

required a full-on transformation of not only his skills and creativity, but also of his commitment, convictions, and identity.

autonomy without clarity is ultimately a disaster.

It’s more satisfying to be useful now than to be remembered later.

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

In the book The Dip, Seth Godin explains the importance and benefits of becoming the best in the world at what you do. As Godin explains in The Dip: “The rewards are heavily skewed, so much so that it’s typical for #1 to get ten times the benefit of #10, and a hundred times the benefit of #100.

NoSQL databases emerged from unmet needs.

In other words, the easiest way to get 2x growth is by going for 10x, because 10x forces you to stop almost everything you’re doing, which is ultimately a waste of time anyway.

People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists.

Wherever you are, make sure you’re there.

When you’re in the gain, you’re never measuring yourself against anything external. You’re only measuring yourself against yourself. More directly, you’re measuring