MJ DeMarco Quotes Page 2

“Consumption requires production and can steal freedom.”

“Dead weight, people who belittle your dreams or don’t support you, should be left behind.”

“Don’t fear getting off a horse only to learn to ride a new one.”

“Don’t quit your day job until your business forces you.”

“Don’t risk everything for twenty minutes of pleasure behind the red curtain.”

“Entrepreneurship is more than a career, it’s a revolution for your life and family.”

“Every person in your social circle puts you one degree away from their consequences.”

“Everything significant starts insignificantly: with one solitary action, one small win, and one move forward.”

“For compound interest to be effective, you need to start with a large sum.”

“Freedom young is always more valuable than freedom old.”

“Getting married is one of life’s biggest expenses; getting divorced is another.”

“Give your best effort in all that you do with pride and optimism, even work that is boring or tedious.”

“Happiness is a choice, a switch in your head that can be flipped on at any time.”

“Hire your weaknesses, work your strengths.”

“How you do the meaningless is how you will do the meaningful.”

“If you are the same person today as you were five years ago, it’s likely your beliefs are not porous, but concrete.”

“If you cheat your way into an opportunity, you likely will cheat your way managing the opportunity.”

“If you follow conventional wisdom from conventional people living conventional lives, you will get exactly that: a conventional life.”

“If you offer relative value, the world generally ignores your past transgressions and personal faults, or life demerits.”

“If you’re too focused on what you want, you won’t see what others want.”

“If your daily existence is ruled by money, defined by money, budgeted by money, sorry, you're not financially free.”

“Impact millions of lives, and you will make millions.”

“Imperfection is the scent of a skewing opportunity.”

“In the same way a prison doesn’t give its inmates directions for escape, the rat race doesn’t either.”

“Know why you follow certain rules… tradition, culture, or evidence based?”

“Likes, comments, opinions, and email addresses don’t pay bills.”

“Look at life as a real video game with problems to solve, rewards to be won, teams to build, and freedom to obtain.”

“Math doesn't lie, but people do.”

“Mediocre comfort, just enough to lull you into complacency, is designed to cement you into the same rut week after week, year after year.”

“Monogamy is focusing on one business only, like a world class athlete would train for one sport only.”