Great news, he keeps around $30MM (0.003%) for himself each year and puts the rest (99.997%) into technology R&D--rockets, electric vehicles, underground transportation systems, treating paralysis, etc.
someone once told me “emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough to understand it before you hand it to someone else” and that honestly changed how i move.
If you find a girl who believes in your dreams more than you do, who makes you want to be a better man, who’s willing to work alongside you to get there and is grateful for whatever you have - just marry her.
You’ll need a lot of energy to break your inertia and get your new enterprise under way. But once you get momentum, you will be hard to stop—virtually unbeatable—even though you’re now putting out considerably less effort while receiving greater results.
When you act on your priority, you’ll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.
The challenge becomes how long you stay on your priority!
A balanced life is a lie.
So if achieving balance is a lie, then what do you do? Counterbalance.
The idea of counterbalancing is that you never go so far that you can’t find your way back or stay so long that there is nothing waiting for you when you return.
When it comes to willpower, timing is everything.
You will need your willpower at full strength to ensure that when you’re doing the right thing, you don’t let anything distract you or steer you away from it.
Love is a powerfully motivating force. But so is hate.
Contrary to social correctness, it can be good to hate. Hate disease, hate injustice, hate ignorance, hate complacency, and so on.
If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others?
The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach.
They go small.