“One life. Just one. Why aren’t we running like we’re on fire toward our wildest dreams?” ~Anonymous…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *JBS, PR*

The Warm-Up: 

“What’s boring doesn’t get attention and what’s exciting doesn’t drive results. Most people are so focused on optics they forget it’s the repetition of the boring basics that makes a difference.” ~Shane Parrish

The Core: 

“There is no chemical solution for a spiritual problem.” ~Alexander Cortes

“It’s authenticity repeated over and over again that creates trust.” ~Gay Hendricks

“You lead by being willing to walk alone…stand alone, carry others.” ~Naval Ravikant

“The game is playing the game long enough to find other long-term players.” ~Jack Butcher

“You are going to see things about people that they are not ready to know. The more you see, the less you say.” ~Maryam Hasnaa

“If someone communicates their boundaries, that is them trying to keep you in their life, not push you away.” ~@poemsporn_

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.” ~Jim Rohn

“Know more about your area of expertise than anyone else on the planet. If that’s not at least the goal, you’ve already lost.” ~Tom Bilyeu

“Objectively, the world is improving. To the elite, it’s falling apart as their long-lived institutions are flattened by the Internet.” ~Naval Ravikant

“The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” ~Muhammad Ali

“The legacy world sees bitcoin as a high-risk asset, while those who understand the legacy system see bitcoin as the lowest risk asset available. Time will tell who is right.” ~Anthony Pompliano

“The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. That is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.” ~Jim Rohn

“Things everyone needs to come to terms with: No response is a response. Taking no risk, is the biggest risk. If they really wanted to, they would. If you’re happy alone, you’ll be happier together. Changed behavior is the only real apology.” ~Steven Bartlett

“The shorter your holding period in a stock, the more important the price you buy at (P/E, P/B, etc.) and the price you sell at (P/E, P/B, etc.) The longer your holding period in a stock, the more important the return on capital / growth rate of the company you’ve invested in.” ~Andrew Kuhn

“Attitude follows action far more often than action follows attitude. We change our mood as a result of how we act. If you want to feel a certain way, begin by acting as if you do. On the other hand, if you truly want to accomplish something, waiting for the mood to strike is ineffective.” ~Seth Godin, The Consequence

“A traveler who had seen many countries, peoples and several of the earth’s continents was asked what attribute he had found in men everywhere. He said: ‘They have a propensity for laziness.’ To others, it seems that he should have said: ‘They are all fearful. They hide themselves behind customs and opinions.’ In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that there will be no second chance for his oneness to coalesce from the strangely variegated assortment that he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience – why? From fear of his neighbor, who demands conformity and cloaks himself with it. But what is it that forces the individual to fear his neighbor, to think and act like a member of a herd, and to have no joy in himself? Modesty, perhaps, in a few rare cases. For the majority it is idleness, inertia, in short that propensity for laziness of which the traveler spoke. He is right: men are even lazier than they are fearful.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Last Set: 

“All the things you can talk about in anyone’s work are the things that are least important...You can describe all the externals of a performance...everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what’s important is what’s left over after you’ve explained everything else.” ~Edward Gorey

Food for Thought:

“While convincing investors that the SPACE agreement will be the future of early stage investing certainly complicated our fundraising journey, we are steadfast in our belief that providing a more comprehensive agreement which accounts for various potential outcomes was the right move to achieve our larger vision of creating a foundation for true economic growth and generational wealth formation for Black entrepreneurs. Our own experiences show us that even if the first startup doesn’t result in a billion dollar outcome, even multi-million dollar outcomes can have a domino effect in the Black community. We want to create more catalytic outcomes so that we have a portfolio of founders who have taken the first swing, have the tools to do it again, ignited a flame in their community, and will go on to invest in the next founder coming behind them. While we know our fund alone will not solve the wealth gap, we do see our work as an important piece to the puzzle of solving the access to capital problem that has plagued Black innovators for generations. We believe Black innovation and success begets community improvement and reinvestment because we’ve seen it with our own eyes.” ~Jewel Burks Solomon, Collab Capital Closes $50M First Fund to Invest in Black Innovators