When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to __iscover._ You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you__e competing against a lot of people. But if you__e willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you__e now competing against a fraction of those people_ Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue

Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.

The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money.

To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.