Patrick Bet-David Quotes

Envy is an indicator that alerts you if you’re being honest with yourself. If you can look at someone who has things you don’t and say, “You know what. I really don’t want that,” you know you’re in a good place. If you say you don’t want something but don’t mean it, envy will eat away at you. What it’s telling you is that you really do want it but are afraid to work for it.

You are going to have to endure more anguish than you can imagine to get there. Those who can tolerate pain the most — the ones with the most endurance — give themselves the highest chance of winning in business.

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.

The moment you understand who you will have to spend the rest of your life with and learn to accept it, you’ll eliminate self-judgment, which will empower you to make more bold moves. It will minimize overthinking and increase execution.

When you’ve decided what your best life looks like and execute that vision, you won’t be envious.

If Shawn notices envy creeping in, it will be a powerful indicator that he should reexamine his goals.

The irony is that each time you step up, you have to start at the bottom. The king of grade school becomes low man on the totem pole the day he goes to middle school. When he finally climbs back up to the top of the ladder, high school starts and he’s back at the bottom again. Your career is going to feel similar: each time you advance, you’ll officially be at the bottom of the next level.

Building trust in employees and partners creates profitable alliances, speeds up all parts of your business, and helps you sleep at night.

I believe that having questions is better than having answers because it leads to more learning.

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

What it all boils down to is that alignment is the key to fulfillment. Keep these things in mind: Your vision must align with who you want to be. Your choices must align with your vision. Your effort must align with the size of your vision. Your behavior must align with your values and principles.

Last, keep that chart of what drives people close by. Remember that everyone is motivated by different things and that your job as a leader is not to drive them (or, worse, fix them), it’s to understand

After all, isn’t the point of learning to help you get what you want? Don’t you have to start with what you want and figure out what you have to learn in order to get it?

Wealth and success are not waiting for most of us at the top of anyone else’s ladder. A richer life — financially, emotionally, intellectually — is possible only when you take responsibility for your own success.

The person who really has the leverage is the person who needs the deal the least.