Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.
To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.
If we want to sum up the theory of evolution by natural selection in two words, which have great relevance for all societies and businesses, we should simply remember: diversity works.
Those who seize the day become seriously rich.
Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 8020 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.
Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader.
Always remember that if you give up in life, life didn't give up on you, you gave up on life.
On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.
Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much.
Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.