Dru Riley

Watch Listen “Suffer a loss to gain a profit.”

Watch Listen “A man under temptation resists once because he has strength of mind, he yields another time because this is overcome.”

Watch Listen “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Watch Listen “Take your broken heart, make it into art.”

Watch Listen “All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”

Watch Listen “Too much speaking is no good, nor too much silence; too much rain is no good, nor too much sun.”

Watch Listen “You know you never defeated us on the battlefield,” said the American colonel.

Watch Listen “No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”

Watch Listen “Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Watch Listen “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Watch Listen “Most everything I’ve done I’ve copied from someone else.”

Watch Listen “The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.”

Watch Listen “Climate does one half, and temperament the rest.”

Listen “All life is an experiment.

Watch Listen “Self-confidence is the memory of success.”

Watch Listen “Courage is like a muscle.

Watch Listen “Attention is all you need.”

Watch Listen “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Listen “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.”

“When the music changes, so does the dance.”

Watch Listen “Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output.”

Watch Listen “Man is a creature that can get used to anything.”

Watch Listen “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

Watch Listen “If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.”

Watch Listen “Please Note: I will not engage in work emails after 7pm or on weekends.”

Watch Listen “In times of extreme stress, the whole concept of fitness, at least in a Darwinian sense, loses its meaning.”

Watch Listen “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

“Water that is too clear has no fish.”

Watch Listen “Stay far from timid.”

Watch Listen “Big doors swing on little hinges.”

Watch Listen “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

Watch Listen “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

Listen “I have to write to discover what I am doing.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

“It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.”

Watch Listen “If the environment is controlled, behavior is controlled.”

Watch Listen “In a phase transition, two competing forces reach a balance.

Watch Listen “The university is so many things to so many different people that it must, of necessity, be partially at war with itself.”

Watch Listen “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

Watch Listen “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.”

Watch Listen “Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought.”

Watch Listen “A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way.”

Watch Listen “Stability is destabilizing.”

Watch Listen “There are no solutions, only trade-offs.”

Watch Listen “Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”

Watch Listen “They’re hands you can lose a lot of money with.”

Watch Listen “It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think.”

“As debt increases, you narrow the range of outcomes you can endure in life.”