Patrick Bet-David Quotes

A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur.

In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.

it was a blessing to learn at a young age that corporations have agendas and that advancement is rarely based on merit alone.

If you can walk away from a deal, you’re in the best position to negotiate the best terms.

I’ve said countless times that many of the world’s problems are going to be solved by entrepreneurs. The simple reason is that entrepreneurs are problem solvers.

The author and relationship coach Mark Manson said, “I always tell men, if every girl you date is unstable and crazy, that’s a reflection of your emotional maturity level. It’s a reflection of your confidence or lack of confidence. It’s a reflection of your neediness.

What differentiates mediocre people from exceptional ones is how deeply they process. Most people are surface-level processors, but the best of the best go much deeper. Long-term thinking versus short-term thinking is the difference between a grand master and an amateur. Surface-level processors are looking for a quick fix. They are thinking only one move ahead, and their goal is to make the issue disappear for now. Deep-level processors look beneath the surface for causes. They are thinking several moves ahead and planning a sequence of moves to make sure the issue doesn’t happen again.

Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time.

If you want to get to the top, there’s always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

What determines if you win in any game (or business) isn’t how good you are; it’s how good you are relative to your competition. That’s why it’s so important to know your own strengths and weaknesses and find a market in which you have an inherent advantage.

What holds people back is the fear of being judged.

Studying yourself helps you reach self-acceptance, which liberates you from self-judgment.

You're going to use experiences to become either bitter or better. To get better you must reflect on your mistakes.

What Would the Rockefellers Do? How the Wealthy Get and Stay That Way, and How You Can Too.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.