Thoughts on life

• You’ll never outperform your identity.
  

• To be correctly contrarian, you need to be incorrectly contrarian a lot.
  

• I aspire to always be the dumbest person in the room. If I'm not, then I'm in the wrong room.  
• Most people don’t need more time. They need fewer excuses.
  
• If you acquire one status product, you will likely have to purchase others to fill up the socially conspicuous puzzle. Avoid.
  
• Learn to learn. It’s your most valuable skill.
• Take extreme ownership. Everything is your fault.
  
• Live life like you can only pack the smallest U-Haul and make 1 trip.
  
• The more you learn, the more you will realize you don't know shit.
  
• At 20, your situation reflects your upbringing; at 40, your situation reflects your decisions; and at 60, your situation reflects the impact you’ve had on others.
  
• Your marriage is your most important business partnership.
  

Thoughts on work

• You’re either building momentum or losing it.
  

• Customers don't care about your product. They care about their problem.
• The longer you stay on the wrong train, the more expensive it is to get home.
• Decision-making is a muscle. Train it.
• Solve real problems, not ego problems.
• Motivation is overrated.
• Saying "I don't know" is underrated.
• No one works harder than a person who hates asking people for anything.
  
• Be extremely annoying.
• You probably won’t get wealthy starting a venture-backed startup.
• Even the best founders are just winging it.
• A lot can happen in a year.