MJ DeMarco Quotes Page 4

“Treat time as you would the king in a game of chess, and money as the queen.”

“Truth isn’t curated to mainstream news: if you’re not actively seeking the truth, you’re not getting the truth.”

“Trying harder doesn’t change the system.”

“Unhappiness, or a dead dream, is the business model of the modern world.”

“Unlike money, time cannot be reclaimed once lost—it is always lost principle.”

“Video gaming is destructive because it allows unlimited anonymous failure while stimulating our dopamine centers with fictional success.”

“Video gaming is endemic to how dismal and hopeless life is for most people.”

“What was the last book you read and when?”

“What you know today is never enough to solve tomorrow’s problems.”

“When a business abandons its customer as a top priority in favor of investors or shareholders, it is stakeholder demotion.”

“Whether you know it or not, your existence has been programmed from diapers to death.”

“You 'live the dream' whenever you have a dream that is alive and pursued.”

“You can gift or recommend a book to a rat, but you can’t make him read it.”

“You can’t spot ideas or opportunities confined in a bubble.”

“You don’t have to be an avid or 'passionate' user of your product or service. You only have to be passionate about the results of your effort: the value you provide to your customers, the difference you make for the world, and your family.”

“You don’t need anyone’s permission to live your dream.”

“You will probably need to learn new skills to escape the rat race.”

“You’ll never get started if you require all the answers to the future problems.”

“Your actions express your priorities.”

“Your boss is your customer, and they can fire you, but you can also fire them. Fire problem customers when the value they bring sinks below their cost.”

“Your great idea is absolutely worthless until execution says it isn’t.”

“Your perception is rarely the reality.”

“A business attached to your time is a job.”

“A business does not make a Fastlane – some businesses are jobs in disguise.”

“A committed Fastlaner has his nose in a book weekly.”

“A job seals your fate into a criminal time trade: five days of life traded for two days of freedom. A job chains you to a set grade of experience. A job takes away your control. A job forces you to work with people you can’t stand. A job forces you to get paid last. A job imposes a dictatorship on your income. These limitations are counter-insurgencies to wealth.”

“A preoccupation to become “highly educated” could be a Trojan horse to your freedom.”

“A successful business isn’t fun and games, especially one that violates the Commandment of Time.”

“All events of wealth are precluded by process, a backstory of trial, risk, hard work, and sacrifice. If you try to skip process, you’ll never experience events.”

“All self-made multimillionaires create their wealth by a carefully orchestrated process.”