Patrick Bet David Quotes

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.

Close your eyes. Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease.

Every master, both in chess and in business, learns more from studying the moves that led to defeat than the ones that led to victory.

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

Studying others gives us knowledge, but studying yourself ultimately leads to an incredible amount of freedom.

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

The downside is that a person spends $20 to watch that hero instead of being that hero himself.

The less your business depends on you, the more valuable it is. The more your business depends on you, the less valuable it is. There’s no exit opportunity if the business relies on your personality.

Your anger at others dies out once you see that no one but you controls your fate.

You must act like a great company (or a great entrepreneur/intrapreneur) long before you ever become one.

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

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. If someone is winning at a higher level than you are, either lower your expectations to match your work ethic or increase your work ethic to exceed your expectations. If you do neither, you’ll be miserable. What it all boils down to is that alignment is the key to fulfillment

I cannot teach you desire. If you prefer to avoid hard work, if you feel no desire to do something important with your life, there’s not much I can do for you.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. —Alexander the Great

If experts say you have ADHD use that God-given gift to ignore naysayers. Learn to use your crutches in life as secret weapons.” — Patrick Bet-David

Change will come ONLY when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.” —​Dora Lee Scott

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.

When you study the most important person (you), you will begin to learn how to conquer the most important person who is holding you back (you).

I believe you should focus your life on observing the little things because one day you look back and realize they were the big things.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — Napoleon Hill

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

You want to choose a path that puts the odds of winning in your favor; in poker, it’s called game selection. 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 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 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.

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?

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

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

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

Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing.” — Donald Trump

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

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.

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

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

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

If ONE out of 15 ideas succeed that’s better than 99% of your friends who never start a single idea.

I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both.

True wealth is being able to drop whatever it is your doing and go do something else or travel somewhere else without any worry.

If the people around you are giving you advice to slow down or to take it easy – you are surrounded by the wrong people.

You just get pickier. I think that's true of everything. Money, toys, girls - all the hedonistic stuff. You just raise the bar

Before you climb the next mountain or conquer your next demon… Take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate your wins!

Don't buy things you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you don't like it.

I came to Canada as a teenager with no money, no contacts, and no knowledge of English.

A good Instagram account is better than day game and standing in the mall doing cold approaches.

the key to an organization’s long-term success is its practice of accountability and the degree to which its leaders hold themselves and their teams accountable for the decisions they make.

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.

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

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.

Processing Steps to Take When Someone Ticks You Off 1. Take responsibility for your role in what happened. 2. State specifically what you did to create the problem. 3. Channel your frustration into getting better and preventing future problems.

In his insightful book Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio said, “I learned that if you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want. Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives in order to pursue even better ones.

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.

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.

Traits of Companies That Attract Intrapreneurs 1. Their executives are comfortable taking calculated risks and encouraging creativity. 2. Their compensation plan incentivizes innovation and outstanding performers. 3. Their executives play offense (improve) instead of just playing defense (cover their asses). 4. Their executives elevate potential stars rather than hold them back. 5. Their executives actively seek out ideas from all layers of the organization. 6. Their executives actively look for young talent to keep the company vibrant and innovative.

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.

received a message on LinkedIn from an IBM executive who wrote, “Pat, I’ve been at IBM for a while and I have been following your content for a few years. I make good money, but I really want to be an entrepreneur. However, I have a wife and three kids and I’m kind of worried about them. What should I do?” We emailed back and forth for a while, and I asked him questions about who he wanted to be. He began to see that intrapreneurship looked like the ideal choice for him. This is when you’re part of a company and create a new business unit, lead a new initiative, or work out incentives that reward you for driving growth and innovation. In some cases, it might just mean being so indispensable that a company has to pay you equity to retain you.

You can’t build a world-class headquarters or license the slickest software until you have cash flow.

A phrase I use all the time is future truth. It means to live in the present as if your future truth has already become a reality.

I don’t get excited about ideas. I get excited about entrepreneurs. I don’t put my faith in technology. I put it in a CEO.

Everybody likes you until you’re a competitor, especially if you’re a formidable one.

When you refuse to process issues, you live a lie and pay the consequences. Don’t waste your time, personally or professionally.

Poor processors play the victim and blame others and external events rather than seeing how they contributed to the problem. You know you’re witnessing a poor processor when you don’t hear the word “I.” You’ll hear him or her say things such as “All millennials are lazy. These kids have no work ethic. They are causing my business to suffer.

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.

Worries genius or happy simpleton? The moment you get caught with the reading bug and learning, you get addicted to it, and you have to know that your mind is going to process stuff and the debate starts happening [in the head] and it’s forever— it never stops. You lose a little bit of happiness when you get too interested in wanting to get certain questions answered in life because it’s never going to end. If you choose to subscribe to wanting to be a lifelong learner you must be ready to lose some happiness and freedom that you once had when you didn’t know everything.

Worried genius or happy simpleton? The moment you get caught with the reading bug and learning, you get addicted to it, and you have to know that your mind is going to process stuff and the debate starts happening [in the head] and it’s forever— it never stops. You lose a little bit of happiness when you get too interested in wanting to get certain questions answered in life because it’s never going to end. If you choose to subscribe to wanting to be a lifelong learner you must be ready to lose some happiness and freedom that you once had when you didn’t know everything.

Stop trying to fix people. Thinking you can change or fix people is delusional behavior. When I started in business, I was guilty of this

I didn’t realize that, to find the key to my success, exactly what I needed was someone to insult my last name and my father. I learned that I do better fighting for others than for myself.

You judge an enemy based on the amount of emotion they create.

Choose enemies that give you energy, not drain your energy.

What three words don’t you ever want to hear said about you? What three words do you want attributed to you?

When you’re on a mission, you don’t need motivation.

You can predict success by how quickly people move at the speed of instruction.

Thinking about how you will celebrate makes your dreams come alive.

When you decide on the award in advance of achieving your dream, you are programming your mind to believe I’m willing to pay a price because this reward is going to happen.

When you see a problem or an opportunity, I want you to shift your thinking from “We need a solution for that” to “We need a system for that.” A solution is a onetime fix that requires you to keep reinventing the wheel and puts you in a reactionary place. A system is an ongoing activity that becomes duplicatable.

Assign each new hire to read a book and write a one-page report so you can see how serious they are about working there.

What holds people back is the fear of being judged.

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey said,

Because the number one factor in reaching your potential is simple: It must matter to you.

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.

They look at something complex, study it, simplify it, and ultimately find a way to solve it.

I mean that every day you fight for something, every day you live according to your future truth, every day you guide people to be their best, you will feel the rewards.

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The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene.

The 6 Biggest Mistakes of Business Planning 1. Not having a plan 2. Not examining last year’s plan 3. Not having an enemy that acts like rocket fuel 4. Failing to integrate logic and emotion in the current plan 5. Not making it a living document—don’t use it to manage 6. Not sharing it (so no one could hold you accountable)

An amateur panics, but a grand master doesn’t.

Know how to process issues.

The difference between being smart and being wise is that a smart person thinks he knows all the answers while a wise person is comfortable knowing he doesn’t.

Despite what some people would have you believe, no one is born a salesperson. Stop trying to find “naturals.” Rather than looking for salespeople, look for people who believe in your vision and want to build relationships.