ACHARYA CHANAKYA

Every second you waste waiting for happiness is a second you could have been using to create it.

The happiest people aren't the luckiest, wealthiest or best-looking; the happiest people are those who make an effort to be happy.

If you want to create your own happiness, you have to sta...

We're afraid to admit when we don't know something for sure and expect not to see uncertainty in others. It can be disastrous.

Consider the case in which a business spent hundreds of millions on an ineffective advertising campaign because they refused even to ask if it was working.

This is a stoic lesson, to visualize failure in advance.

It helps because if you imagine failure you start seeing all the ways that have led to that result. And you can start actively working on addressing and mitigating them in advance.