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If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution.

The perfect target market for a startup is a small group of particular people concentrated together and served by few or no competitors.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don’t disrupt: avoid competition as much as possible.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

Unless you have perfectly conventional beliefs, it’s rarely a good idea to tell everybody everything that you know.

As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

If you’re not yet wealthy but want to be someday, never purchase a home that requires a mortgage that is more than twice your household’s total annual realized income.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

If your goal is to become financially secure, you’ll likely attain it…. But if your motive is to make money to spend money on the good life,… you’re never gonna make it.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

Don’t chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….

Operate your household like a productive business.

It’s amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You’ll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed.

If you make a good income each year and spend it all, you are not getting wealthier. You are just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.