Patrick Bet-David Quotes

People who don’t think more than one move ahead are driven by ego, emotion, and fear.

increase your income is a formula. If you’re not fulfilled and happy with the current results in different areas of your life, it’s most likely due to your needing to make some adjustments in some of the formulas you’ve been using for a while.

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

We never feel completely ready for life’s big decisions; but in taking the leap, we push ourselves to the next level.

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.

You really need to get clear about what you can sacrifice and what you absolutely will not sacrifice.

Any entrepreneur who wants to stay sane needs to let go of the silly notion that challenges are scary. Challenges never stop coming, so you’d better learn to love them and thrive on them. Every struggle is an opportunity to grow and improve.

I’ve met many unfulfilled, unhappy people. The most dangerous unhappy people I’ve met are those who are both extremely ambitious and extremely lazy. What this combination produces is envy, which is a deadly sin that will make your life a living hell. These are people who think big and want to do something big, but they’re not willing to put in the work to earn it. They’ll cheat. They’ll throw you under the bus. They’re constantly looking for shortcuts. And if someone else has what they want, it eats away at their very soul.

Awareness shows you that you are at the center of all your problems (and solutions).

Going silent during a crisis is an example of making the easy choice instead of the effective choice.

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.

it’s foolish to believe you can win at somebody else’s game.

Don’t underestimate the power of shame to motivate you.

If you use too much leverage and overplay your hand to maximize your profit from a particular deal, you may win the battle but lose the war.

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.