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What did i need to do to understand this technology or that business better than anyone.

And finally, I had to make sure I wasn't lying to myself about how hard I was working. It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed by while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

I had to kick myself in the ass and recommit to getting up early, staying up late and consuming everything I possibly could to get an edge. I had to commit to making the effort to be as productive as I possibly could. It meant making sure that every hour of the day that I could contact a customer was selling time and when customers were sleeping, I was doing things that prepared me to make more sales and to make my company better.

In sports, the only thing a player or coach can truly control is effort. The same applies to business. The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.

If we were going to grow, it was going to take working hard and working smart.

But it could be doing better.

The good news was that I had my business. The one thing that I could always focus on to the exclusion of everything else. A trait that would serve me well in business, but had more than a little bit to do with my breakup.

The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort

A computer programmer who doesn’t actively think about their code is said to be “programming by coincidence.”

You’d deserve a super hot girlfriend because of your big…apartment

the things that bring the deepest joy in life can be purchased only through massive action and unshakeable intent, and in that realm, knowledge is king.

the negative energy eventually turned into stress and anxiety that actually distracted me from my work

The rock star developers and UI designers I’ve worked with are the same guys who work from morning till midnight, turning their thoughts into reality through the awesome power of maniacal determination.

It’s the secret that is no secret, because there is no secret to success.

If you don’t take a conscious approach to creating the life you want, you risk relegating yourself to being busy, but unproductive, living a life full of answers for which there are no questions.

When done right, it scares the shit out of you, and that’s what makes it so worthwhile.

Happiness is hard work

When others are jubilant, you should be scared, and vice versa. Don't let others' emotions sway you; the market masses should help you find opportunities in their absence, not guide you down their own path to mediocrity.

When proper circumstances present themselves, act with decisiveness and conviction.

"Half of Warren's time is sitting on his ass and reading; the other half is spent talking on the phone or in person to a highly gifted person that he trusts and trust him.

Resist the natural human bias to act.

When you find a great investment, don't be afraid to bet big on it.

When good ideas came, he poured significant capital into them; otherwise, he simply enjoyed the California sun.

They focus their brainpower on the value of businesses, not convoluted economic forecasts or intricate market-timing technique

Use effective checklists to minimize errors and omissions.

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

If you never stop asking the "whys" in what you do, you won't have trouble staying motivated.

The only way to win is to work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights.

it's critically important to make sure you believe that what you're doing is right

All investment evaluations should begin by measuring risk, especially reputational.

Don’t settle for less than you’re worth. Demand of yourself that you’ll do work you love — or no deal

If you cannot work in a state of joy, don’t work at all.

If you know what it’s like to really love your work, then you’ll probably see this is no exaggeration.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.

Work is love made visible.

what it’s like to work from love instead of for money.

Well, that didn't discourage me at all.

If you wrote once every three or four or five months, that would be enough."

He didn't write back -- I didn't hear from him but it didn't matter.

But the most important thing was writing him a letter every Sunday. He didn't tell me to write him every Sunday, he just told me to keep in touch. So I wrote him every Sunday for four years.

my main objective then was to finish high school

I asked him to let me come to Hollywood to work for him

Somewhere in Idaho, riding through an empty road, my mood changed; I felt totally rested and eager to get back to work

I also went through the exercise of thinking about my own startup - twice. Both exercises fell apart after a few weeks work because I didn't have the right partner, and I didn't know what I was doing, but I would like to compliment myself with the thoughts that the first startup could have become Yahoo! and the second startup could have become Vermeer (the company that became Microsoft Front Page.)

Talk to other programmers; read other programs

Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure
that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in ten years.

Researchers (Hayes, Bloom)
have shown it takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a
wide variety of areas, including chess playing, music composition,
painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in
neuropsychology and topology

if you were, say, a
Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of
Basic using Pascal syntax, but you couldn't learn what Pascal is
actually good (and bad) for.

time to work with an experienced programmer and
understand what it is like to live in that environment

n 3 days you won't have time to write several
significant programs, and learn from your successes and failures with
them.

I was deficient in the fundamentals. Everything I’d been tweaking was the minor stuff. Fundamentals are the rock-solid road bed you build on. I’d been rearranging the mile markers on a strip of sand.

Suddenly it was so obviously there.

Sad and ashamed, I enrolled in a clinic hoping to cure my hitting dysfunction.

I enjoy the game in a way that borders on obsession