Patrick Bet-David > Quotes

“The most dangerous unhappy people I’ve met are those who are both extremely ambitious and extremely lazy. What this combination produces is envy, which is a deadly sin that will make your life a living hell. These are people who think big and want to do something big, but they’re not willing to put in the work to earn it. They’ll cheat. They’ll throw you under the bus. They’re constantly looking for shortcuts. And if someone else has what they want, it eats away at their very soul. If someone is winning at a higher level than you are, either lower your expectations to match your work ethic or increase your work ethic to exceed your expectations. If you do neither, you’ll be miserable. What it all boils down to is that alignment is the key to fulfillment”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“Your vision must align with who you want to be. Your choices must align with your vision. Your effort must align with the size of your vision. Your behavior must align with your values and principles.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“Every master, both in chess and in business, learns more from studying the moves that led to defeat than the ones that led to victory.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“Studying others gives us knowledge, but studying yourself ultimately leads to an incredible amount of freedom.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Drop Out And Get Schooled: The Case for Thinking Twice About College

“You're going to use experiences to become either bitter or better. To get better you must reflect on your mistakes.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“The downside is that a person spends $20 to watch that hero instead of being that hero himself.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible

“The less your business depends on you, the more valuable it is. The more your business depends on you, the less valuable it is. There’s no exit opportunity if the business relies on your personality.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“Your anger at others dies out once you see that no one but you controls your fate.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“You must act like a great company (or a great entrepreneur/intrapreneur) long before you ever become one.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time.”
― Patrick Bet-David

“I cannot teach you desire. If you prefer to avoid hard work, if you feel no desire to do something important with your life, there’s not much I can do for you.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“increase your income is a formula. If you’re not fulfilled and happy with the current results in different areas of your life, it’s most likely due to your needing to make some adjustments in some of the formulas you’ve been using for a while.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. —Alexander the Great”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“If experts say you have ADHD use that God-given gift to ignore naysayers. Learn to use your crutches in life as secret weapons.” — Patrick Bet-David”
― Patrick Bet-David, Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible

“When you study the most important person (you), you will begin to learn how to conquer the most important person who is holding you back (you).”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — Napoleon Hill”
― Patrick Bet-David, Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible

“Any entrepreneur who wants to stay sane needs to let go of the silly notion that challenges are scary. Challenges never stop coming, so you’d better learn to love them and thrive on them. Every struggle is an opportunity to grow and improve.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“Change will come ONLY when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.” —​Dora Lee Scott”
― Patrick Bet-David, Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible

“You want to choose a path that puts the odds of winning in your favor; in poker, it’s called game selection. What determines if you win in any game (or business) isn’t how good you are; it’s how good you are relative to your competition. That’s why it’s so important to know your own strengths and weaknesses and find a market in which you have an inherent advantage.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“You are going to have to endure more anguish than you can imagine to get there. Those who can tolerate pain the most—the ones with the most endurance—give themselves the highest chance of winning in business.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“What determines if you win in any game (or business) isn’t how good you are; it’s how good you are relative to your competition. That’s why it’s so important to know your own strengths and weaknesses and find a market in which you have an inherent advantage.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“You really need to get clear about what you can sacrifice and what you absolutely will not sacrifice.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“What it all boils down to is that alignment is the key to fulfillment. Keep these things in mind: Your vision must align with who you want to be. Your choices must align with your vision. Your effort must align with the size of your vision. Your behavior must align with your values and principles.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“We never feel completely ready for life’s big decisions; but in taking the leap, we push ourselves to the next level.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Doing The Impossible: The 25 Laws for Doing The Impossible

“If you can walk away from a deal, you’re in the best position to negotiate the best terms.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“Studying yourself helps you reach self-acceptance, which liberates you from self-judgment.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

“People who don’t think more than one move ahead are driven by ego, emotion, and fear.”
― Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy