How to succeed in Business

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

“Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.”

Health club operator Renaissance has raised membership fees for a typical plan twice since the pandemic started, by around 10% each time. It also has renovated its sauna facilities and started 24-hour operation at some gyms in response to customer demand. In July, the company raised workers’ pay by 5%, compared with 2% to 3% raises in the

emulate the sparrow, the “wisest of birds.” According to the Zhuangzi, “If its eyes do not spot a suitable place, it will not look twice. If it happens to drop the nut it is carrying, it will simply abandon it and continue on its way. It is wary of people, and yet it lives among them, protected within the altars of grain and soil.”

without a list of individual projects, you can’t connect your current efforts to your long-term goals.

A systems-first mentality provides the antidote. When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running

people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.

“You don’t get extreme results without extreme actions.” - Derek Sivers

Ultimately, the only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one’s life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of commitment to one place, one belief, or (gulp) one person.