Gavin Arcidiacono
Life is a balancing act of creating and enjoying things.
“The trick is to focus on appreciating the things you have, more than the things you want.”
“Any idea had to come from something we have learned or from the universe.”
“Consistent routines… produce consistent outcomes.” Systems and checklists rule.
“Write out your to do list, then sit with it and think about how and why you are going to solve each task”
“Making money is like solving a puzzle. How am I going to solve this puzzle”
“Massive action makes you feel good.”
“Being productive makes you fell happy.”
“You have greatness in you… you just have to let it out.”
“Proximity is power”… the proximity you have to people is powerful to your connection and result. The block. Any community you join.
We are playing the game of life… every time we wake up, the game starts. You take actions which are moves in the game. It’s good to think about your moves. What moves should be routine. What moves are big moves. How can I anticipate the game and the moves I will make in the future.”
A budget is telling your money with you instead of instead of wondering where it went, John Maxwell, total money makeove
Time most people spend more time, picking out a suit, then planning their retirement or their career
Do you have to change your spending and diet habits?
Morgan Housel: The Physiology of Money
“Saving money is the difference between your ego and you income.”
Flea RHCP Michael Balzary
“It takes diligence. It takes sacrifice. We work. We write. We never stop. This is our purpose. We are humble. We are students. We care. We want to grow. We want to learn. (Not every artist feels that’s) Every good one does.”
Henry David Thoreau's
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them”
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
“A seven nation army couldn’t hold me back.”
White Stripes
“Big Energy!”
Beyoncé
Jesus
Buda
Elon Musk
Charlie Munger
“In my whole adult life. I have never hoarded cash, waiting for better conditions. I’ve just invested in the best thing I could find. I don’t think I am going to change now.”
Sr. John Templeton
Warren Buffet
“The ideal business… something that cost a Penny and sells for a $1 and is habit forming.”
“It doesn’t matter how hard you rowed…it matters what boat you’re in.”
Fredrick M. Alexander
“People don’t decide their futures. They decide their habits and their habits decide their future.”
Dr. Joel Furman MD
“The whiter the bread the sooner your dead.”
“If you eat enough vegetables in your diet you will not develop heart disease.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.”
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
“Wine is proof that God loved us.”
“If you don’t want to be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
“Don’t put off tomorrow what can be done today”
“If passion drives let reason hold the reigns.”
Martin Luther King
“If you haven’t found something worth dying for, you’re not fit to live.”
Einstein Quotes
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
"It's not that I am smart. I just stick with problems longer."
"Energy is everything. That's all there is to it. Meet the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot yelp but get that reality. That's all there is to it. That's not philosophy that physics."
“You have to learn the rules of the game then you have to play better than everyone else.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle... to keep your balance you must keep moving forward.”
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather try to become a man of value.” The success will follow
“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish on its ability to climb tree’s, it will spend it’s whole life believing it is stupid.”
“Art and Science are the two most effective forms of escape mankind has created.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Milk is for babies… when you grow up you drink beer.”
Connor McGregor
“I focus on the feeling I get when I can give back to the people that have given to me.”
“You have got to be a little bit insane to your craft. I do not pay attention to nothing else.”
Elon
“Don’t let her not like you.”
Thomas Edison
“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Everyone I meet is in some way my superior. In that I learn from him.”
“It’s not the length of life but the depth.”
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”
“You become what you think about all day long.”
“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
10 X Rule
“It is your moral obligation to be successful.”
“Three types of action. No Action, Some, and massive.”
“Money and power follow attention, so whoever can get the most attention is the person who takes the most action and sooner or later will get the most results.”
Joe Rogan
“I want to do everything to keep my body and mind running like a well oiled machine”
“The art of living a maximized life.”
“Once you understand the way broadly you you can see it in all things.”… and I think that all difficult things aid you in developing your human potential. And you find a way to get out of your own way when you by getting good at all kinds of things.” (-Myamoto Musashi)
Finding the balance between work and getting after it and have the eyes on the price.
Post Malone
The goal in life is to be a little kid forever.
Stop and smell the roses.
Tim Ferris
“Apply 80/20 and delegate.”
“D.I.S.S.- Deconstruction What are the building blocks Selection- 80/20 What to focus the most energy on (one pager) Sequencing- What to do first, second…, Plan of Action, Check in on the plan every once in a while Stakes- Set Up stakes for yourself & Understand the risk and reward in every situation”
Peter Thiel
“If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution.”
Tony Robbins as
"The secret to wealth is simple. Spend less than you earn and invest the rest... then increase your capacity to earn."
“Decision committed… but Change your approach until outcome achieved”
Spend Money on experiences, giving, and gaining time back (outsourcing).”
“Decisions shape your destiny.” Decide well. Choices
“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
“The most powerful force in the human psyche is the need to stay consistent with their identity.”
“Vision reason map”
“Progress = Happiness.”
Jim Rohn
“There are a million and one ways to make a million and one dollars.”
“Don’t start your day until it’s already over”
“Stand guard at the door of your mind”
“Either you run the day or it runs you”
“You mind is like a fertile field. If you leave it weeds will grow. But if you feed it with good seed and pick the weeds, you will get a harvest.”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
“Successful people have library’s the rest have big screen TV’s.”
“Work full time on your job and part time on your fortune… until you fortune out ways your job. Then you get to work full time on your fortune.”
“Reason come before action”
“C.A.N.I … constant and never ending improvement”
Don’t wish for better winds… wish for the wisdom to set a better sail.”
James Spooner
“It’s most important to be extremely clear on what you want.”
“Vibrate at a frequency of the things you want… then the universe will bring you that thing”
Steven Covey
“Seek first to understand then to be understood”
“Begin with the end in mind”
“Put first things first”
“Think win win”
Steve Jobs
“Without death there would be very little progress.”
“If today was the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today.”
“The work you do is going to fill a large part of your life. The only way you can be truly satisfied is to do work that you believe is truly satisfying.”
“I don’t hire great people so that I can tell them what to do… I hire great pro ppl e so that they can tell me what to do.”
Stoics
“Momento Morè” - Marcus Arealius
He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius.
Dali Lama
“You can never make peace in your outer world until you make peace in your inter world”
“Take the negative charge within you and try to understand and forgive it or feel forgiven by it.”
Grand Pop Arch
“When you watch TV you are escaping your reality. If you do it to often you should just focus on creating a reality that is more exciting that the TV.”
“Never a good idea to cut towards yourself.”
“It’s always a good idea to have your spouse love you more than you love them at first” ... what I think he meant was make sure you girls is obsessed with you first then open up to her. Ask yourself the question. Is she into me? Then ask is she very into me? Then ask am I I to her?
“You can learn from your parents or life will teach you the lessons… but life will be a lot hard”
“I have only rushed two times in my life.”
“There will be people in your life that you will not like. The good thing is you can choose to never see and stay away from them and they will be out of your life.”
“How can I make you happy?”
“You will respect yourself for the rest of your life because you go through hard things.”
Bridget
It’s not hard to be successful when the world is average”
Grand Mom
If you have nothing nice to say... don’t say anything at all
This too shall pass
Mom-mom
“An idle mind is the devils playground.”
Poppy
“You will never work harder than you will if you marry a rich guys daughter.”
G-Pop Mac
Family is what’s most important in life.
Tea
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow”- Aeschylus
“You are infinite”
“Nature is not rushed yet everything gets done”
Jay Z
“If money talks The Whole world bout to hear me out”
“I get my by any means on whenever there’s a drout”
Mom
“Kill em’ with kindness.”
“Make sure you eat here. Because your not eating at home tonight.”
“The best way to someone’s heart is through their stomach.”
“Choosing your spouse is the most important decision of your life’s.”
“Hate is a strong word.”
“Burrrrrr”
“The right thing is not always the thing you want to do?”
“The preits is on the alter”
“If any of my kids did UFC. I would be so sad. Actually they would looks sad because I would be their first opponent.”
“People treat you how you let them treat you. Make sure you make people treat you right.”
Dad
“Close the loop.” Finish what you started all the way through.
“We have an embarrassment of Riches”
“First thing in in the morning before I talk to anyone… I need my coffee.”
“With Age Comes privilege.”
“Lifting weights is the key to youth.”
“Family is a Labor of Love”
“Get it down to a science”
“Don’t be a moron.”
“Nothing can replace “in person” meetings”
“You can get caught up in work or a passion but family is the most important.”
“A satisfied need satisfied no longer motivates.”
“You have good time friends. Then you have real friends.”
“Don’t be a dork use a fork.”
“Begin with the end in mind”
Fran Dolan
“Don’t rest on your laurels, just because you had a good day yesterday. You have to realize that non of that matters. Today is a new day.”
Christopher Voss
“…when the pressure is on you don’t rise to the occasion you fall to your highest level of preparation.”
Albus Dumbledoor
“Of course it’s happening inside your head Harry, but why on earth should that mean it’s not real?”
“We must face the choice between what is right, and what is easy.”
Navy Seals
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast”
“If you don’t have two of something you have none of something.” Always have backup.
Adam Sandler
“Kids used to make fun of me for being Jewish. They would throw pennies at me. I saved those pennies and I used them to start my own business. Now all those kids work for me”
Jocko
“Just Be tougher. It’s a decision.”
“Take extreme ownership of everything in your life.”
“Discipline equals freedom.”
“Don’t have time?… make time.”
“Get some.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“Get your work in.”
Woody Allen
“90% of success is showing up”
Ray Dalio
"One of the great tragedies of human kind. People arrogantly and naively holding opinions in their mind that are wrong and acting on them, and not putting them out there to stress test them."
"Collective decision making is so much better than individual decision making if it is done well with intelligent people."
“Money is a by product of excellence.”
“Make your passion and you work one and the same and do it with people you want to be with.”
“Work is either a job you do earn the money to pay for the life you want or what you do to achieve your mission or some mix of the two I urge you to make it as much to achieve a mission as possible.”
Book Psychology of Money
“Having enough. One of the best financial skills you can learn is to not continue to move the goal post.” To not increase wants when income increases.
Vincent Van Gogh
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“I think most people have enough thrown at them where if they react to them all they all they would be doing is putting our fires.”
“Care is underrated in creating things in the world.”
Kobe Bryant
“Rest at the end not in the middle.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree. I will spend the first four sharpening the saw.”
• Buzz Williams on Pardon my take: PFT - “Whats your dream coach?” - Buzz Williams - “I want to be famous in my home. I want to be my wife’s best friend. I want to be the dad and husband that my boys look at and go man if I could do that every day, that’d be a great life. And I want my girls to grow up and go I love that my dad treats my mom like that and that’s the kind of husband that I wanna marry”
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