Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Think of times other people outdid you and you just assumed that they were smarter or more talented. Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that too, if you want to.

I learned that real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful. It was about working hard to give more than you get.

El secreto de mi éxito fue rodearme de personas mejores que yo.

I said that any individual who learned to do something better than anybody else — learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner — had solved his problem, regardless of the colour of his skin, and that in proportion as the Negro learned to produce what other people wanted and must have, in the same proportion would he be respected.

Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

As I learned from these extraordinary people, my life grew exponentially. I became who I am because when I was broke and struggling, I made it a point to consistently seek out and listen to people who were just a step ahead of me. I’d take in their wisdom, assimilate the lessons, and grow. Then I’d level up, make new connections, and learn from people a step ahead from that level. And on and on. Over time, I even managed to heal the social isolation I was feeling and instead become an expert on company culture and tribe building.

إذا رأيت شخصاً أفضل منك بشيء فاعلم أنه يفعل شيء لا تفعله أنت

I’ve had many jobs before this one and will have many after, but this is where I learn one of the most vital lessons: if your own story is one you aren’t sure you can survive, remove whatever sharpness you can from another person’s life.

Love is a lesson worth learning.

When working, surround yourself with people more successful than you.

superpower, which taught me a lesson I want to pass on to you: focus above all else on being a starter, an experimenter, a learner.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you’ve failed at something. If someone is better than you at something, then it’s likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it’s likely because he hasn’t been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.