The importance of betting big: In entrepreneurship, you will lose more times than you win. So you just need to make sure that when you win, you win so big, it overshadows all your losses. No one cares about small victories or defeats.

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Any sign of mediocrity will be met with absolute violence

Any sign of mediocrity will be met with absolute violence - Memo

If someone says “that’s not my job” they probably shouldn’t do anything else at your company either.

People spend more time looking for shortcuts than it takes to get there the long way. What makes the long way the long way is how long it takes people to accept that it’s the only way to get there.

Any sign of mediocrity will be met with absolute violence - note to self

You can beat 99% of people without being smarter or luckier, but by being willing to endure pain and uncertainty for longer.

No one looks cool figuring something out. But you do it - and keep doing it - because you care more about your goal than you do about being cool. Kids care about being cool. Adults get what they came for.

There’s no demand for “average.”

The magic is in that last 20%. Pain is the filter—few pass it.

Your biggest threat isn’t your competition, it’s the mediocre version of you that you’ve accepted as good enough.

When something is harder than you thought it would be, consider that the reward may also be better than you thought it would be too. Just because it’s harder than you thought doesn’t make it any less worth it.

Every once in a while you have to remind yourself that you are capable of violent, unrelenting, forceful action.

The most dangerous people in the world are people with intelligence, resources, and work ethic that who have absolute conviction that they’re right.