The very best businesses create a virtuous cycle: they create huge amounts of value while keeping their expenses consistently low, - Josh Kaufman

Ideas are cheap — what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.

Business schools don’t create wealthy and well-connected people. They accept them, then take credit for their success. If you get in, the school will do what it can to help you get a well-paying job within a few months of graduation, but making things happen will always be your responsibility. If you’re successful in the years after graduation, the school will hold you up as a shining example of the quality of their program and will use the “halo effect” of your name to recruit more students. If you lose your job and go broke, you’ll get neither publicity nor help, but the loan bills will keep rolling in. Sorry about your luck.

The best way to invest willpower in support of skill acquisition is to use it to remove these soft barriers to practice. By rearranging your environment to make it as easy as possible to start practicing, you’ll acquire the skill in far less time.