When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.

Jesse Itzler

If you want the most reward you have to take the most risk.

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You have to learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable. You have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and push your limits.

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your you comfort-zone limits

Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.

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push everything you way

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

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will never you little-things

We don't aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.

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The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you're completely free to try anything.

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yourself best you fear

No experience is necessary to push yourself past what you think you can do.

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Do everyday things in a new way to get the brain thinking in new ways.

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new brain way thinking

So many of us live our lives on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep... repeat.

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I want to live with a monk... and the Rolling Stones.

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To me, the thing is, through good or bad, if you're a Knicks fan, you're down with the Knicks, and that's the bottom line.

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down good me you

Time is the most precious resource there is - you have to protect it.

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precious you protect time

I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.

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It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.

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better place never try

If I had done 'Go, New York, Go' for the Spurs, it might not have worked. It really taught me a lot about demographics and tastes and styles. I never went to business school, so that whole experience was my crash course in marketing, contracts, negotiations, and product launches.

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I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

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If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.

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At a young age, I realized that getting letters is exciting.

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I was networking every day from 21 to 28 years old. I sent 10 letters a day, which means I reached out to 3,000 people in a year.

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every-day day networking people

The concept of getting out of my routine, mixing it up, and pushing myself to live the grittiest life is something I try to incorporate every day.

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