If you’re looking toward the long-term goal of getting wealthy, you should ask yourself, “Is this authentic to me? Is it myself that I am projecting?” And then, “Am I productizing it? Am I scaling it? Am I scaling with labor or with capital or with code or with media?”

Biggest ideas in this book: 1- Compatible desires (either symmetric desires or asymmetric desires) 2- Easy path focuses on what you can do and not changing what others want or naturally do 3- A free person spends their time choosing among attractive alternatives 4- Know what you want. Do what makes you uniquely happy and do not compromise your desires. Act creating consequence leading to your happiness 5- Recognize everyone else is different and unique - both in what makes them happy and therefore how they act

Why do I get angry when I am insulted? Because I entertain the verity of the insult.

If you think that only which is your own to be your own, no man will ever compel you, no man will hinder you, you will never blame or accuse no man, you will do nothing involuntarily, no man will harm you, you will have no enemy, for you will not suffer any harm.  

Intelligence is not borne out of self-discipline or suppression. In the one instance it is wholly the pursuit of desire, the primitive man pursuing the object he desires. In the other instance, the intelligent man sees the significance of desire and sees the conflict; the primitive man does not, he pursues anything he desires and creates suffering and pain. So to me self-discipline and suppression are both alike—they both deny intelligence.

Sometimes people have to suffer enough in a relationship to get disillusioned about all relationships. It takes that rock bottom to reach the insight of: there must be another way of living than depending on another human being.  

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.   Happiness does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.  It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness. 

Do not criticize or condemn.   To know all is to forgive all.