Sublime

Your premises must measure up with respect to two counts, truth and strength.

If you are not putting in the time and energy to succeed, someone else will, and you have no right to complain when they take what was yours. It is acceptable to be mediocre, but if that is the path you choose, then alter your expectations about what life will give you in return. Success is not easy, but things worth achieving never are.

that you are serious about being paid, just as serious as you are about delivering the results

“My word is law,” you establish a dominance, an authority over the mind; so when you say something, you’re going to follow through.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse.