Readwise Highlights

The only way to build wealth is to have a gap between your ego and your income.

What we remove is as important as what we add. It isn't just the ideas that get the work done.

There’s more to learn from people who endured risk than those who seemingly conquered it, because the kind of skills you need to endure risk are more likely repeatable and relevant to future risks.

“Let’s put price off to the side for a moment and talk about what would make this a good deal.”

In other words, the key to the leader's public usefulness is his inner, unseen life. Character is what we are when no one is looking. The leader is leading all the time and, for the most part, unconsciously. Your holiness matters greatly to those you have been entrusted to lead.

If the need for holiness is one challenge I shall take from this book,

Parents, we need to be their greatest supportive coach. It is our job to be the coach that we always wanted. Our actions shape their beliefs. We are the greatest influence on our children’s lives and in their development, stability, attitudes, likes, and dislikes. Children watch everything we do and learn by modeling behaviors and beliefs about

From a practical standpoint, the biggest contributor to your errors and emotional volatility is what lies below the surface, such as flaws like: