Justin Welsh

I never made more than $500,000/yr in 5 years as a startup executive. I've never made less than $500,000/yr in 7 years as a solopreneur. The money is great. The free time is better.

Unsuccessful people complain that the game is rigged. Successful people know that too, but they master the rules and win anyway.

The secret to being unstoppable: Go to bed at 9 p.m., get up at 5 a.m. and get all of your exercise and work done before most people are having coffee.

Counterintuitive advice: Reinvent yourself every 5-10 years. There’s no better resilience exercise than starting over. Comfort feels great, but staying comfortable for too long will destroy you.

My entire business plan is to do what I want, when I want, with whom I want, and very little of what I hate.

I've found that the people who complain about unfair advantages never spend time building their own.

Don't sell your skills to a company; sell them to everyone.

No matter how good your job is, you are always one meeting away from your entire life changing without your permission.

Your employer will never pay you what you're worth. They can't. Their model only works if there's a gap between what you produce and what you cost. A great way to close that gap is to work for yourself.

Do the opposite of the average person, and you'll be successful: Be optimistic, be kind to everyone, don't let politics own you, stop following rage-baiters, do insanely good work always, eat well, sleep well, and train hard. Great lives are remarkably simple.

Want to fall in love with your life? Chase things that are hard, meaningful, and a bit painful for a very long time.

A very underrated life skill is being genuinely happy when good things happen to other people.