If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with someone.

The one who knows what to do is more effective than the one who does something, even if he does it professionally.

A lack of money is what makes us unhappy, but we become happy thanks to the people close to us and to family.

Understanding one principle spares you from having to know a hundred facts.

There's a hell of a formula: look at America and do the same.

Constantly trying to find a logical explanation for your actions, it's easy to fall into the trap of self-deception.

For example, someone breaking their diet might convince themselves that a slice of cake was a well-earned reward for a hard day.

Such defense mechanisms relieve the inner conflict for a while, but in the long run they keep you from changing your behavior.

Every person has a motive for every action, and if you want to work with them, you need to understand that motive.

I don't see workaholism as something to be proud of. And not because I'm a lazy ass myself (though that too), but because to me workaholism is about anything except useful, effective work.

Rules were made to help idiots who can't make decisions.

Life is when it carries you, not when you force yourself to wake up in the morning.

There is nothing more useless than doing efficiently what should not be done at all.

Do you know what the difference is between cunning and wisdom? Cunning is the ability to take advantage of a situation. Wisdom is understanding where, how, and what to use.

Change your attitude toward the situation; multiply good, not evil.

The main thing is to assess your abilities honestly and not take on obligations you clearly can't handle.

Don't go telling everyone you'll become an IT billionaire when the only person in your family who's ever been “coded” is your dad, and that was the anti-drinking treatment.

Magic is just the fog between action and result. When you can't see the mechanism of what's happening, that's what feels like magic. And you can put that to pretty damn good use.

There's a crutch that might help. Nietzsche has this idea of eternal recurrence (though it gets butchered everywhere).

Basically, imagine the world is on a loop and you'll have to relive every moment of your life an infinite number of times.

From that, ask yourself whether you'd want to relive situations, over and over, exactly the way you handled them.

Evo, Ecto, Euro, everyone's got their own marketing.

Cuts fuel consumption, the engine runs better, the headlights shine brighter, scratches on the body heal themselves, and the driver's potency goes up.

When you study information, you develop the skill of studying information, and that's it. When you do something, you develop the skill of doing that something…

So if you separate these two, first learning and understanding all the theory while you don't yet need it, and only then doing, your brain has to either relearn, or learn a different action only indirectly related to the previous one.

Honestly, there's no clear-cut answer to how not to waste your youth.

If you grind from dawn till dusk, your communication skills and your personal life in general will be in question, plus you'll pick up all sorts of nervous quirks, and so on and so forth.

So live, enjoy it. Do what you love, and don't be too lazy.

Be glad that guys turn their heads at the sight of your girl and her fucking amazing ass.

For a man, the main thing is not to lie to yourself or to others, if you see bullshit, call it bullshit. Even if you're wrong in the moment, you still perceive it as bullshit.

There's a saying: your parents' job is to raise you; your job is to re-raise yourself afterward.

The thing is, when you're a spineless piece of shit, if you're not walking toward your goal, at least lie down facing it. And anyway, all real change happens drop by drop.

For example, temperature can shift one degree at a time, and it seems like who gives a fuck, but when it moves from +1 to zero, water turns to ice.