Joe Stampone

Investor Vince Hanks on balance in thinking:

“I think if you're too qualitative, you miss a lot of details that are important, and if you're too quantitative, you miss a lot of the details that are qualitative.”

Prepare as if this is your only opportunity, and perform as if nothing can go wrong.

Effort is a choice. If it's important to you, there is no excuse for someone putting in more effort than you.

In the past, I've been a frequent victim of shiny object syndrome. I get excited about new things and spread my attention thin. Right now, I'm at a moment in my life where I have incredible clarity around my focus areas. I'm seeing it start to compound ferociously. The best way for me to screw that up would be to jump at the hundreds of shiny

If you wait, will it get easier, or will you just be older?

Success is endurance in disguise. It belongs to the person who can absorb the losses without absorbing the identity of "loser." It's the courage to start — and to stick with it — that is the real separator. Results tend to find the person who stays in the game.

The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there.

Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.

"To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a person alone reading a book that interests them; and all economics, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, are only valuable in so far as they prolong and