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What I learned losing a Million Dollars – Brendan Moynihan & Jim Paul

1. Studying how not to lose money can be more important than studying how to make money.

2. The most successful investors have one thing in common, they are not losing money.

3. Succes can be built. Upon repeated failures when the failures are not taken personally.

4. Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test before teaching the lesson.

5. Smart people learn from their mistakes Wise people learn from other people’s mistakes.

6. All succesful investors have one thing in common, they understand that losing is part of the game.

7. You must plan before entering the market.

8. Failure to have and follow a plan is the root cause of reasons of loosing in the market.

9. Focus on doing right, not being right. This is what separates a good decision maker from a bad one.

How to become a Highly Influential Personality – Satessh Singh

1. Try to have a heart-to-heart conversation and not a mind to mind one. Mind always tries to read and judge.

2. Be empathetic towards other people. Show you gratitude. Compliment them. Accept them as they are.

3. Human beings love their own name the best. We love to be called by our names.

4. A caring heart, shoring ear and fairing mind is the best quality of a human being.

5. When we replace expectation with appreciation, we enjoy utmost satisfaction.

6. Always meet and greet people with a smiley and cheerful face. Show warmth and affection in your body language.

7. Look at things as per other person’s perspective?

8. Listen actively, get involved, get engaged, be curious, be intuitive and allow other people to speak, speak and speak.

The code of Extraordinary Mind – Vishen Lakhiani

1. Have big goals – but don’t tie your happiness to your goal. You must be happy before you attain them.

2. We shouldn’t do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things.

3. The most extraordinary people in the world today don’t have career. They have a mission.

4. Money is neither good nor bad. Money simply multiplies who you are. If you are a good person, money multiplies that. If you are a bad person, money multiplies that.

5. Happiness may come from gaining things. But true fulfilment comes from giving things. Give, contribute,, share. You become happy when you make others happy.

6. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.

The Winner Stands Alone – Paulo Coelho

1. Talent is a universal gift but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best.

2. If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

3. If you believe in victory then victory will believe in you.

4. Life sometimes separates people so that they can realise how much they mean to each other.

5. All human beings are different and should take their right to be different to its ultimate consequences.

6. Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

7. How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Rework – Jason Fried

1. What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

2. If circumstance change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary.

3. Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

4. If you build software, every error message is marketing.

5. Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself.

6. Don’t make up problems you don’t have yet. It’s not a problem until it’s a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

7. It’s OK if it’s not perfect. You might seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

Running Lean – Ash Maurya

1. Life is too short to build something nobody wants.

2. Customers don’t care about your solution. They care about their problems.

3. Waste is any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value.

4. Startups that succeed are those that manage to iterate enough times before running out of resources.

5. You will notice a lot of failed startups with great products; and successful startups with bad/average products. The difference between the two is: customers.

6. Your customer’s customers are your customers.

7. The early stages of startup should consist primarily of learnings. So don’t worry about scalable servers and optimising your website.

On Writing Well – William Zinsser

1. There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published.

2. The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

3. Every writing project must be reduced before you start to write.

4. The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.

5. Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it that should not be there.

6. Clear thinking becomes clear writing: one can’t exist without the other.

7. Don’t try to visualise the great mass audience. There is no such audience – every reader is a different person.

How Rich People Think – Steve Siebold

1. The rich understand money flow from ideas, and since ideas are limitless, money is limitless.

2. Middle class dreams of having enough money to retire. World class dreams of having enough money to impact the world.

3. Commit to investing at least one hour per day studying subjects that will help you move closer toward your ultimate vision.

4. The truth is you have to have great ideas that solve problems to make money. If you do, you will attract money like a magnet.

5. Wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

6. Wealthy people are often criticised for being obsessed with money, but the truth is, it’s poor, working an middle class the spend the most time thinking about it.

Connect – Josh Turner

1. The key to internet marketing succes is to now what to say, how often to say it, and where to say it.

2. When relationships are carefully managed, they bring growth and prosperity.

3. Open the relationship by communicating something positive or even inspirational.

4. Our belief and trust in something is hugely influenced by how often we have already seen it.

5. Learning to harness new practice will allow you to build, refine and scale your business.

6. When someone is exposed to a message repeatedly, they naturally start to believe and trust it. The higher the exposure, the deeper the trust.

7. The power of the internet is that it enables the average person to have a voice that can be heard by thousands.

Unposted Letter – Mahatria Ra

1. Successful progress is better than stressful succes.

2. People who don’t trust before the explanation, will not trust even after the explanation. Trust cannot be negotiated.

3. When you have a vision for tomorrow, you will find power and purpose in your today’s work.

4. Grow in such a way that one day all this people who rejected you will admire you.

5. Expressing your feelings can cause hurt in relationship, but not expressing will hurt the relationship itself.

6. Have such goals in life, even if you fail to achieve, it should be a success to human potential.

7. The best relationship is one which you love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

The Art of Work – Jeff Goins

1. We all have the power to turn our lives into significant stories if we start to see our difficulties as opportunities.

2. Find what you love and what the world needs, then combine them.

3. Chances come to us all, but only those who are ready recognise them.

4. Failure is the best friend you will ever have if you learn from it.

5. It’s not good enough to be good at something; you must focus on what you are meant to do.

6. The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination.

7. Successful people and organisation don’t succeed in spite of failure; they succeed because of failure.

Thinking for a Change – John Maxwell

1. To make progress in any field, you have to take action. But the success of that action you take depends entirely on how you think beforehand.

2. You can spend your life anyway you want, but you can spend it only once.

3. The people in your life impact your thinking, for better and for worse so why not work strategically to find people who will stretch you to your potential.

4. Make goal to find people who will add value to you in areas that are important to you. And make yourself available to do the some for others.

5. Don’t do easy things first of hard things first or urgent things first. Do first things first – the activities that give you highest return.

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish – Rashmi Bansal

1. If you love your work, and it gives your life meaning, then you will have fun through the difficult times.

2. There is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur. You are failed only when you quit, until then you are simply not succesful yet.

3. Develop a thick skin if you want to follow your heart. Because chances are your family and friends might not understand or approve your idea.

4. Choose a goal and focus on it. It can be in the area of product, service or knowledge.

5. First is passion, if you are not passionate about what you are doing, then you are in wrong place.

6. More than monetary sacrifice, it is really the sacrifice of time when you are an entrepreneur. And that is a much more expensive sacrifice than money.

The Game of Adversity – Nick DiNardo

1. Bad luck and choices can become teachable moments as well.

2. Adversity is not just good for us; it’s necessary.

3. Based on our self awareness, we apply a narrative about what life really is and how we should go about it.

4. Be present in the process. Then, let the outcome take care of itself.

5. When something is taken away once, it’s given back twice.

6. Confidence is a byproduct of time and skill development. So just take the first step.

7. The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

#Workout – Jurgen Appelo

1. Life is too short to spend in jobs we don’t lover

2. Work is not only about getting things done. It’s also about Making Lives Better.

3. More interesting than discovering “Who you are” is learning who you could become.

4. Before you try to measure someone else’e performance, please explain how you measure your own.

5. Making money is good; making a difference is better, but not making money while making a difference beats all.

6. Every business should start with on question: “Why?”

7. You can not simply change an organisation’s culture. What you can change are your own behaviours and influence.

Maximise your Potential – Jocelyn Glei

1. Don’t follow your passion, cultivate it.

2. To build a career, the right question is not “What job am I passionate about doing?” but instead “What way of working and living will nurture my passion?”

3. Doing what you love is difficult but worthwhile.

4. The wau to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

5. When you make choices that will affect your career, aim for the intersection of your genuine interests, skills and opportunities.

6. Remarkable achievements are fuelled by genuine interest.

7. All humans are entrepreneurs not because all people should start companies but because the will to create and adapt is part of our DNA.

Catalyst – Chandramouk Venkatesan

1. Time spent at work is not equal to experience.

2. Succes is a partnerschip of experience and productivity.

3. To be a good leader, you need to be a great follower.

4. Great career succes comes on the back of great change and transformation.

5. One of the greatest success factors at work is out ability to convert time and activity into experience.

6. To quit a job, you must have the right reasons to quit.

7. The impact of our work on life is low compared to the impact of life on work.

8. Honesty and humility are two needed ‘H’s’ for success.

The Richest Man in Babylon – George Clason

1. In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavours we succeeded.

2. Good luck can be entices by accepting opportunity.

3. Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having.

4. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

5. There are two kinds of learnings, the first are the things we learn and know, while the second are trainings that teach us how to find the things we do not know.

6. A part of all you earn is yours to keep, it should not be less than a tenth no matter how you earn.

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living – Dale Carnegie

1. If you want to keep happiness, you have to share it.

2. Knowledge is not power until it is applied.

3. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

4. A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

5. Our life is what our thoughts make it.

6. The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today.

7. Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things. We should despise and forget. Remember “Life is too short to be little”.

8. When you are good to others, you are best to yourselves.

The One Minute Entrepreneur – Kenneth Blanchard

1. You can get what you want in life if you help other people to get what they want.

2. It’s not who you know that counts; it’s who knows you and what they think of you.

3. You never need to cheat to win. Remember that what’s right is more important than who is right.

4. Always visualise your desired outcome ahead of time.

5. Too many people dream too small. Remember you will never achieve more than you think you can. So create a big dream.

6. Succes is not just about having a successful career. It’s about having a great life.

7. Write your values down and read them every day. Then, when your gut tells you you have violated one, stop. Take note and get back on the right path.

The 80/20 Principle – Richard Koch

1. The way to create something great is to create something simple.
2. Those who seize the day become seriously rich.
3. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The things that counts is developing it into a practical product.
4. 80% of the result come from 20% of the causes. A few things are important; most are not.
5. Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.
6. The best relationships are built on five attributes: mutual enjoyment of each other’s company, respect, shared experience and trust.
7. Those who are happy with most of their lives are more likely to be happy over all.
8. You may be able to work in an area that is your hobby or even turn your hobby into a business.

The Unemployed Millionaire – Matt Morris

1. What you decide to do in every moment determines what will happen the rest of your life.
2. Succes is simple but only if you know the formula.
3. Most of us have gone to school for 12 to 20 years of life to learn math, history, science, geography, and grammer, but we were never taught the most important subject of all – how to be successful. All the real life skills and principles that it takes to be successful are never thought in school.
4. The most successful people in the world actually have more failures than the rest.
5. Celebrate your failures as successes.
6. Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits.

High Performance Habits – Brendon Burchard

1. A meaningful life is just the sum of meaningful moments. Live in every moment.
2. Add so much value that you can’t help but get it paid forward.
3. When you knock on the door of opportunity do not be surprised that it is work who will answer.
4. Something extraordinary happens when you dramatically increase the focus, drive and intention you bring to your life, work and relationship.
5. Who we become is the result of our disciplined actions.
6. When we amplify the best within us, we can achieve something miraculous.
7. No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

The Start-Up of You – Reid Hoffman

1. Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurially.
2. A competitie edge emerges when you combine different skills, experiences and connections.
3. How you spend your free time may reveal your true interests and aspirations.
4. Making a decision reduces opportunities in the short run, but increases opportunities in the long run.
5. Many people thing you get career stability by minimising all risk. But ironically, in a changing world, that’s one the riskiest things you can do.
6. You own yourself. It’s the start-up of you.
7. The person passionate about what he or she is doing, will work harder than the guy motivated exclusively by making money.

When – Daniel Pink

1. Decision an negotiations, should be conducted earlier in the day.
2. If we stick with a task too long we lose sight of the goal.
3. Single largest motivator was making progress in meaningful work.
4. Frequent short breaks are more effective than occasional ones.
5. Breaks and recess are not deviations from learnings. They are part of learning.
6. High performers have something in common. They are really good at taking breaks.
7. Breaks are an excellent wau to improve performance, so embrace the break to escape work.
8. The typical worker reaches the most unproductive moment of the day at 2:55 pm.

The Art of Thinking Clearly – Rolf Dobelli

1. Whether we like it or not, we are puppets of our emotions. We make complex decisions by consulting our feelings, not our thoughts.
2. There are two kinds of forecasters; those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.
3. It’s OK to be envious – but only of the person you aspire to become.
4. No matter how much you have already invested, only your assessment of the future costs ands benefits counts.
5. It is much more common that we overestimate our knowledge than that we underestimate it.
6. The human brain seeks patterns and rules. In fact, it takes it one step further: If it finds no familiar patterns, it simply invents some.

The Fifth Agreement – Miguel Ruiz

1. You have the right to live your own life, in your own way, and there is no wrong way.
2. Words are paintbrush and your life is the canvas.
3. Even the worst thing can happen to you is meant to happen because it’s going to push you to grow.Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image is not you.
4. Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image is not you.
5. Once you completely accept what you are, you are ready to enjoy life. There’s no more judgment, no more guilt, no sham, no more regret.
6. The first step toward personal freedom is awareness.
7. We speak the truth because we live in the truth.

Everyone has a story – Savi Sharma

1. Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, som are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.
2. Love hard and forgive mistakes. Not only other people’s mistakes, but your own as well.
3. It would be a sin not to remember the things that make you happy.
4. If two souls are destined to meet, the universe will always find a way to make the connection.
5. The worst thing a man could do was make a woman fall in love with him and have no intention to love her back.
6. When feelings are pure and the heart is true, even God is forced to change destiny.
7. You need to be real and true to yourself. Don’t run away from yourself, your dreams or the life which you deserve.

Originals – Adam Grant

1. Practice makes perfect, but it does not make new.
2. Argue like you are right and listen like you are wrong.
3. Being original does not require being first. It just means being different and better.
4. Procrastinations may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity.
5. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
6. Passionate people don’t wear their passion on their sleeves; they have it in their hearts.
7. Our intuitions are only accurate in domains where we have a lot of experience.

Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

1. Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.
2. You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in you own behaviour than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.
3. The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.
4. Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendship, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
5. Higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasure of life.

Create or Hate – Dan Norris

1. Everything around you was created by people who were no smarter than you.
2. It’s better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing & criticise others.
3. Comparison is a major creativity killer.
4. I can’t tell you how to be successful. But I can tell you that if you don’t make anything, you won’t be successful.
5. Being creative is not magic. It’s just a person deciding to create.
6. The world will be a better place if we create what we want to create.
7. Do more of what you love and you will be more successful.

Hack the Entrepeneur – Jon Nastor

1. Do not underestimate what you, your laptop, a good Wi-Fi connection and some hard work can accomplish.
2. We always overestimate the size of our problems, until we overcome them.
3. Always be proud of creating something out of nothing.
4. The value of an idea is only realised during its execution.In order to be an entrepreneur, you need to act like an entrepreneur.
5. In order to be an entrepreneur, you need to act like an entrepreneur.
6. Accept that the starting point is the worst business will ever be.
7. Your ideas are worthless untill you take action.

Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill

1. The starting point of all achievement is burning desire.
2. If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
3. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
4. Remember that you real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.
5. Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
6. Set your mind on definite goal and observe how world stand aside to let you pass.
7. No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The Four Hour Workweek – Tim Ferris

1. Doing Something unimportant well does not make it important.
2. Focus on being productive, rather than busy.
3. Lack of time is actually a lack of priorities.
4. Find your inefficiencies and eliminate them and find your strength and multiply them.
5. What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it. Efficiency is useless unless applied to the right things.
6. The most important actions are never comfortable.
7. Do the minimum necessary for maximum effect.
8. Life exists to be enjoyed – the most important thing is to feel good about yourself.

Never Eat Alone – Keith Ferrazzi

1. Real networking was about finding ways to make other people more successful.
2. Friendship is created out of the quality of time spent between two people, not the quantity.
3. The best way to become good at small talk is not to talk small at all.
4. The one thing no one has figured out how to outsource is the creation of ideas.
5. Success is any field, but especially in business is about working with people not against them.
6. Power, today comes from sharing information, not withholding it.
7. The most exciting breakthrough if the 21st century will occur through an expanding concept of what is means to be human.

Creativity Inc. – Ed Cutmull

1. Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better.
2. Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of craft.
3. Engaging with exceptionally hard problems forces us to think differently.
4. The past should be our teacher not our master.
5. If you are not experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake.
6. You don’t have to ask permission to take responsibility.
7. The future is not a destination. It is a direction.

Traction – Gabriel Weinberg

1. Almost every failed startup has a product. What failed startups don’t have are enough customers.
2. In the context of startups, literally “going viral” means that every user you acquire brings in at least one other user.
3. Many startups fail into product trapbuilding a product before thinking about distribution.
4. The secret of shareable content is showing readers they have a problem they did not know about it.
5. When you encourage your customers to connect around your startup, they feel more connected as a community and can com up with ideas that you may not think of yourself.

The Power of Less – Leo Babauta

1. Happiness is not outside of us, but actually comes from within.
2. Instead of presents, give presence.
3. Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference.
4. Limit yourself to small goals, and you will achieve more.
5. If you focus on doing things that make you happy, you will have less of a need for stuff.
6. Instead of focussing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you are doing.
7. There is almost nothing in you life that’s irreplaceable, other than people.

How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie

1. If you want to be interesting, be interested in the other person.
2. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotions.
3. Talk to someone about themselves and they will listen for hours.
4. Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language. Use names while talking.
5. Winning friends begins with friendliness.
6. Always talk in terms of the other person’s interest.
7. The only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want, and show them how to get it.

Blink – Malcolm Gladwell

1. The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.
2. Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment; which means that we can change our first impressions.
3. The simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice.
4. The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
5. You can learn as much – or more – from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
6. Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and natural thinking.

The End of Jobs – Taylor Pearson

1. A job is the act of following, the operating system someone else created.
2. Entrepreneurship is a skillset which can be acquired.
3. The internet had made it possible to start a business just by being clever and ambitious.
4. There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
5. We dramatically underestimate how much we can get done in two or three years, but overestimate how much we can get done in a day or a week.
6. Jobs are fundamentally linked to time. Whether you make $500K per year or $8 per hour, your earning capacity at a job is linked to your time.

People over profit – Dale Patridge

1. The fastest road to true and lasting succes is a highway called “Truth”.
2. Authenticity is the act of telling people what you believe and care about, not telling them what you think they want you to believe or care about.
3. Somethings don’t change with age because they are part of what makes you who you are as a human being.
4. It requires bravery to accept who you are and stop trying to be what you think people want.
5. Fear is the exact opposite of what you want life to be, fear leads you away from your desires. So turn around, risk bravely. Take action and start now.

Girlboss – Sophia Amoruso

1. The energy you will expend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.
2. Confidence is more attractive than anything you could put on your body.
3. Focus on the positive things in your life and you will shocked at how many more positive thing start happening.
4. One key to running a successful business is to know how to get free marketing. Rule no.1? That’s simple “Just do a good job”.
5. Treat your mind like your money, don’t waste it.
6. When you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you too.
7. There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

The Accidental Billionaires – Ben Mezrich

1. The Biggest risk is not taking any risk.
2. People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.
3. People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.
4. We look for people who are passionate about something. It doesn’t matter what you are passionate about.
5. Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand.
6. The hacker approach involves continuous improvement and iteration. He believes that something can always be better and nothing is ever completed.

How to Love – Thich Nhat Hanh

1. The more you cultivate joy, the more joy you will feel and be able to share.
2. The roots of lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech.
3. Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person.
4. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.
5. For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside.
6. The more you understand the more you love; the more you love the more you understand.
7. Every person is a world to explore.

Man’s search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

1. Happiness can not be pursued, it must ensue.
2. He who has a “WHY” to love for can bear almost any “HOW”.
3. Life is not something that inherently has meaning. It’s something we give meaning to.
4. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
5. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour.
6. Live as if you were living a 2nd time, and as though you had acted wrongly the 1st time.

Living Forward – Michael Hyatt

1. Those who feel satisfied with their personal life are more satisfied with their careers and perform better.
2. You can’t take care of anyone else unless you first take care of yourself.
3. In life, you often get what you expect.
4. Self-leadership always precedes team leadership.
5. Whatever the goal, small, daily investments can bring big result.
6. The 1st step toward getting somewhere is to decide you are not going to stay where you are.
7. Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.
8. What get’s scheduled gets done.

The 7 Day Startup – Don Norris

1. Business is not just about making money. It’s about creating something that is valuable.
2. Solve the problems where people are already paying for solutions.
3. To really test whether you can build a business, you have to start building it.
4. Anyone can create a job for themselves. But not everyone can change the world.
5. Always favour a name that’s simple. Even if it doesn’t mean anything, being simple makes is memorable. Eventually it will mean something.
6. It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope logo or name will say it for you.
7. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

The Effective Executive – Peter Drucker

1. Intelligence, imagination and knowledge are important resources, but only effectiveness converts them into result.
2. If there is any one “secret” of effectiveness, it is concentration.
3. It’s not important to get things done, it’s important to get the right things done.
4. The less an organisation has to do to produce results, the better it does the job.
5. Time is the carpets resource and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.
6. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
7. Effectiveness must be learned.

Attached – Amir Levine

1. True love, in the evolutionary sense, means peace of mind.
2. All happiness or unhappiness sole depends upon the quality of the object to which we attached by love.Experiences are only meaningful when shared with others.
3. Experiences are only meaningful when shared with others.Relationships are one of the most rewarding of human experiences, above & beyond other gifts that life has to offer.
4. Relationships are one of the most rewarding of human experiences, above & beyond other gifts that life has to offer.
5. Theory is that in romantic situations, we are programmed to act in predetermined manner.
6. In a true relationship, both partners view it as their responsibility to ensure the other’s emotional well-being.

Mastermind Dinners – Jayson Gaignard

1. We live in a world where there are two currencies: money & time. That’s why they call it “paying” attention.
2. Living in a few years of your life like most people won’t, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.
3. It’s better to take imperfect action than no action at all.
4. Who you surround yourself with is who you become, so choose wisely.
5. Invest in people like others would invest in a business, the return is far greater.
6. An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.
7. If you don’t share your struggles, people won’t buy you successes.

Better Than Before – Gretchen Rubin

1. When we change our habits, we change our lives.
2. Habit is good servant but a bad master.
3. Scheduling is one of the most effective ways to building better habits.
4. The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not to do at all.
5. Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
6. What we do every day matters more than what we do once in a while.How we schedule our days is how we spend our lives.
7. How we schedule our days is how we spend our lives.
8. We manage what we monitor.

The Miracle Morning – Hal Elrod

1. Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don’t think you have to choose one over the other.
2. You are where you are because of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.
3. Give up being perfect for being real.
4. Try to make everyday the best day of your life, because there is no good reason not to.
5. The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in life is the moment you can change ANYTHING in your life.
6. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body & prayer is to the soul. We become the books we read.
7. Discipline creates lifestyle.

The four agreements – Don M. Ruiz

1. The most important agreements are the ones you made with yourself.
2. Once you feel what it means to live in a state of bliss, you will love it.
3. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
4. If you are truthful with yourself, you will save yourself a lot of emotional pain.
5. Making assumptions in our relationship is really asking for problems.
6. Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.
7. Love will give you inner peace.
8. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.

Zeo to One – Peter Thiel

1. A bad plan is better than no plan.
2. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.
3. Collaboration is better than competition.
4. Succes is never accidental.
5. Indefinite fears about the far future should not stop us from making definite plans today.
6. The best problems to work on are aften the ones nobody else even tries to solve.
7. No company has a culture, every company is a culture.
8. Recruiting is a core competency of any company. It should never be outsourced.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki

1. A job is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem.
2. When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.
3. Change your focus, from making money to serving more people. Serving more people makes the money come in .
4. Don’t work for the money; make it work for you.
5. Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of success.
6. The single most powerful asset we have is our mind.
7. It’s more important to grow your income than cut your expenses.

How to Talk to Anyone – Leil Lowndes

1. Talk with confidence
2. Give importance to the person
3. Talk about their interest.
4. Talk less about yourself
5. Use their names while talking
6. Never answer in one word.
7. Always talk positive
8. Don’t fidget.
9. Always look in the eyes.
10. Never talk fast, speak calm & clear.
11. Never criticize someone for EVERYTHING.
12. Get little bit of knowledge of every field.

The Secret – Rhonda Byrne

1. Your thoughts become things.
2. See the things that you want as already yours.
3. Your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.
4. You get exactly what you are feeling.
5. Your imagination is a extremely powerful tool.
6. Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it. Believe it’s possible for you.
7. What you think, you create. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine you become.