1. Life is a Single Player game and You (only you) are responsible for outcomes. 2. Real cost of life is time spent on things you don't love. If you die poor (wrt Money) but spend time on doing things you love, you lived well. 3. People often say One thing and do another, especially when information asymmetry allows them to manipulate. 4. Incentives : Most powerful Nudge which is the most influential driver of human behavior. 5. Don't be a Hedgehog who knows only single idea to escape enemies. 6. Your Focus should be on the Family which you create, rather than the Family which you came from. 7. Proof of a living being is inhaling and exhaling the Air, when everyone is the world use the same Air available in atmosphere, does other factors of discrimination matter? 8. Always feel gratitude for smallest things. The Apple you ate in morning contains the whole universe : Apple Tree, Sunlight, Rain, Cloud, Earth, Soil, Air, Farmer's sweat, market, money, cashier, delivery vehicle, fuel, refrigerator, knife, bowl etc. The list is endless. Everything in this universe depends on one another.
Confucius
1. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 2. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. {I teach and I be certain that I really understood it} 3. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. 4. Roads were made for journeys, not destinations. {Embrace the Journey} 5. The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches. {Be aware of modern day e-philosopers} 6. Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on. 7. No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. 8. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. 9. The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step. 10. Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one.
Jim Rohn
1. The Major Key to your better future self is YOU. 2. Don't let your learning lead to Knowledge, it should lead to ACTION. 3. Standard Education will give Standard Results, be Self Educated. 4. Don't try to Beat the System, follow the due process even if it is a longer route. 5. True happiness is not in Money/Success, it is in the person that you become. 6. How do you learn :- Read, Listen and Observe (Sight {with Eyes} and Insight {with mind}) 7. Don't be a follower, be a student. (feel free to discard things not applicable) 8. Discipline is the mother of Success, if you struggle start with a little discipline like waking up on time. 9. Success leaves clue, learn about the successful people and copy every possible action. [I don't agree with this advice] 10. Be there wherever you are, there are ample opportunities available for you to excel there.
Richard Feynman
1. The First principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Elon Musk
1. If something is important Enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it. {IIT JEE-2012} 2. Failure is an option here, if things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. {Extreme Experimentations} 3. The first step to establish that something is possible, then probability will occur. {Thoughts creates impressions on reality} 4. Persistence is very important, you should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
Charlie Munger
1. Never underestimate a man, who overestimate himself. {Self belief}