The foundation of maturity: Just because it’s not your fault doesn’t mean it’s not your responsibility.
Don’t aim to have others like you； aim to have them respect you.
Train employees well enough they could get another job， but treat them well enough so they never want to.
In all things — except love — start with the exit strategy. Prepare for the ending. Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
Don’t create things to make money； make money so you can create things. The reward for good work is more work.
A balcony or porch needs to be at least 6 feet (2m) deep or it won’t be used.
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has a name for. If you possibly can， work where there are no words for what you do.
Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it.
Be governed not by the tyranny of the urgent but by the elevation of the important.
If something fails where you thought it would fail， that is not a failure.
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand. For the rest of your life you’ll use this knot more times than you would ever believe.
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme， it’s a pyramid scheme.
Jesus， Superman， and Mother Teresa never made art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art begins in what is broken.
It’s not an apology if it comes with an excuse. It is not a compliment if it comes with a request.
Recipe for success: under-promise and over-deliver.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. At your funeral people will not recall what you did； they will only remember how you made them feel.
If you have any doubt at all about being able to carry a load in one trip， do yourself a huge favor and make two trips.
That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it.
The universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success. This will be much easier to do if you embrace this pronoia.
I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong， maybe even embarrassingly wrong， and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.