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“This ten-year-old monk added, “When you get stressed—what changes? Your breath. When you get angry—what changes? Your breath. We experience every emotion with the change of the breath. When you learn to navigate and manage your breath, you can navigate any situation in life.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“In 1902, the sociologist Charles Horton Cooley wrote: “I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Cancers of the Mind: Comparing, Complaining, Criticizing.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“When you deal with fear and hardship, you realize that you’re capable of dealing with fear and hardship. This gives you a new perspective: the confidence that when bad things happen, you will find ways to handle them. With that increased objectivity, you become better able to differentiate what’s actually worth being afraid of and what’s not.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. —the Dalai Lama”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“There is toxicity everywhere around us. In the environment, in the political atmosphere, but the origin is in people’s hearts. Unless we clean the ecology of our own heart and inspire others to do the same, we will be an instrument of polluting the environment. But if we create purity in our own heart, then we can contribute great purity to the world around us.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“आप वही हैं, जो आप तब होते हैं, जब कोई नहीं देख रहा होता है।”
― Jay Shetty, Sanyasi ki Tarah Soche

“Criticizing someone else’s work ethic doesn’t make you work harder.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“Jim Carrey once said, “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of, so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“If you are satisfied with who you are, you don't need to prove your worth to anyone else.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Becoming a monk is a mindset that anyone can adopt.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Everyday

“stop looking to the competition. Value-innovate and let the competition worry about you.”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“Create. Don't Compete.”
― Renée Mauborgne, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“Focus on innovating at value, not positioning against competitors”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“Competition is only good up to a point. When supply exceeds demand”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“Every blue ocean will eventually be imitated and turn red”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“Technology is not a defining feature. You can create blue oceans with or without it.”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“Blue ocean strategy is not about being first to market. Rather it’s about being first to get it right by linking innovation to value.”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE, THE PRODUCTS, AND THE PROFITS—IN THAT ORDER”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“Life is struggle.” I believe that within that quote lies the most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“Build a culture that rewards—not punishes—people for getting problems into the open where they can be solved.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“IF YOU ARE GOING TO EAT SHIT, DON’T NIBBLE”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“Spend zero time on what you could have done, and devote all of your time on what you might do.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“the most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“People at McDonald’s get trained for their positions, but people with far more complicated jobs don’t. It makes no sense. Would you want to stand on the line of the untrained person at McDonald’s? Would you want to use the software written by the engineer who was never told how the rest of the code worked? A lot of companies think their employees are so smart that they require no training. That’s silly. When I first became a manager,”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“That’s the hard thing about hard things—there is no formula for dealing with them.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things