Patrick Bet-David Quotes

“Awareness shows you that you are at the center of all your problems (and solutions).”

“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.”

“If you notice envy creeping in, it's a powerful indicator that you should reexamine your goals.”

“If you want to get to the top, there’s always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.”

“Poor processors play the victim and blame others and external events rather than seeing how they contributed to the problem. You know you’re witnessing a poor processor when you don’t hear the word 'I'. You’ll hear him or her say things such as 'All millennials are lazy. These kids have no work ethic. They are causing my business to suffer'.”

“Studying others gives us knowledge, but studying yourself ultimately leads to an incredible amount of freedom.”

“Studying yourself helps you reach self-acceptance, which liberates you from self-judgment.”

“The moment you understand who you will have to spend the rest of your life with and learn to accept it, you’ll eliminate self-judgment, which will empower you to make more bold moves. It will minimize overthinking and increase execution.”

“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.”

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting freedom, but it may feel empty once you’ve attained it.”

“This book is about taking the vision and mindset of a chess master and applying it to business.”

“to 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.”

“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).”

“You must act like a great company (or a great entrepreneur/intrapreneur) long before you ever become one.”

“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.”

“You're going to use experiences to become either bitter or better. To get better you must reflect on your mistakes.”

“Your anger at others dies out once you see that no one but you controls your fate.”

“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.”