Paul K. Layode

Strategy | Economics | Business | Venture Builder

[Sharran Srivatsaa @sharran]

Don't compete on price. Don't compete on features. Compete on the problem you solve better than anyone else in the world.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

If someone always plays the victim, understand: it’s not weakness, it’s strategy; helplessness is one of the most powerful tools in manipulation because it disarms logic, silences confrontation, and puts you in the role of a caretaker instead of a challenger.

[Sherry Jiang is at ai engineer wf (sf) @SherryYanJiang]

the most common founder pathology isn’t burnout - it’s cognitive paralysis.
you know what needs doing. the roadmap’s clear. but you end up doomscrolling twitter, fiddling with fonts, or rewriting onboarding copy for the 7th time instead of shipping the scary thing.

[Kevin Szabo @KevinSzabo14]

No one is ignoring you, people are simply focused on their lives, and they will make time for you if you bring value.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

The average person lives in a feedback loop of reaction, mimicry, and unconscious incentives; to rise above human nature, you must first understand how deeply programmed it is, then reprogram yourself so ruthlessly that your behavior becomes deliberate evolution.

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

Big budgets don’t win marketing wars. Guerrilla tactics do.

In 1984, Jay Conrad Levinson revealed how small brands could outsmart giants without spending millions.

Here’s the playbook that changed advertising forever:

[Nika Solé @withlovesole]

Pattern recognition is also the willingness to examine your own cycles and behaviors, and connect the dots of why you operate in certain ways or attract certain experiences.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

The only real business advice you need:

• Don't run out of cash.
• Look at your bank account weekly.
• Treat customers like you won't get another.

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

As boring as it sounds, I’m slowly realizing that 90% of success is doing the obvious thing for a painfully long amount of time without convincing yourself you’re smarter than you are.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Game theory teaches: never enter a game you haven’t studied, never reveal your strategy until the incentives are locked, and never play to be liked, play to make the rules irrelevant by building leverage.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major career cheat code: Build a reputation for reliability. You can get pretty damn far by just being someone who people can count on to show up and do the work. Who stays true to their word. Who can figure it out. The old fashioned things never go out of style.

[High Signal AI @HighSignal_AI]

Larry Ellison might be the wildest CEO Silicon Valley has ever seen.

• Lives in his private Hawaiian island
• Hired spies to take down Microsoft
• Steve Jobs and Elon Musk studied his playbook

Here’s how he crushed IBM and built Oracle into a $400B empire:

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Seduction isn’t in your looks, your clothes, or your lines, it’s in your presence. Slow, composed, and aware. When you say little, they fill in fantasies. When you respond rarely, they obsess. The less you give, the more they chase. The mind hunts what’s missing.

[Aditi Choudhary @AditiRajasthan]

The most valuable math you can learn
is how to calculate the future cost of your current decisions.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

The difference between a $1M business and a $100M business:

Hiring operators.

After years of making the right & wrong decisions, here's the exact process we now use to find killer operators:

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

If you want to make more money, be more useful, to people who have more money.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

Avoiding hard conversations to “keep the peace” erodes trust over time.

Peace isn’t the goal. Love, respect, and growth are.

Real relationships at work, at home, anywhere - require truth, not silence.

Say the thing.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

“You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” - David Ogilvy.

Find the best people, pay them well. Biggest secret few do.