JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on the day he was fired from Citigroup after 15 years: "my boss called me in and said we want you to resign - to which I said, OK. I went home. the youngest one said, Dad, do we have to sleep on the streets?"
this is him explaining how he rebuilt a bank from a $511 million loss into the largest in America, what he does every Sunday with the problems he is avoiding, and what he told the man who fired him a year later
"it was my net worth, not my self-worth"
"I called him a year later. I told him I didn't think he did the right thing for Citigroup. then I told him the mistakes I made. he acknowledged my mistakes"
"if you split a taxi receipt, that's stealing. if I caught you doing that, I'd fire you"
"would you have your child work for that person? half the time we promote people, we would not let our kid work for them"
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You literally can’t get under my skin at work, bruh. I started my career in audit. Three months in, I already had a CFO yelling at me over mistakes they made themselves. You’d have to get really creative to reach levels of workplace chaos I haven’t already experienced.
To my 25-35 year olds, this is the age bracket where most people start to settle and give up on themselves. They plateau, they slow down, they become highly skeptical, they think it’s too late to pursue a goal. Never let their mindset infect yours. You can do anything at any age if you want.
be delusionally optimistic about your future. your mind will try to stop you. give you all kinds of reasons why you will fail. it's not the truth. it's fear. fear of uncertainty. do not fight it. just ignore it. believe that anything is possible. your belief is the spark that keeps you moving forward.
If you study successful people closely, you will notice they are not always more motivated, they are simply more willing to endure long periods where effort is not rewarded, because they understand that delayed payoff is part of the structure, not a failure of it.
If you want to become disciplined in a way that actually compounds, stop focusing on intensity and start focusing on repeatability, because discipline is not built on rare bursts of effort but on behaviours you can execute consistently when there is no urgency forcing you.