Targets are the enemy of habits

Wanting to maintain a distance from someone you don’t relate to anymore doesn’t mean that you don’t care about them it just means that you care about the relationships you have with yourself more than that you have with others.

You are allowed to outgrow ol...

When you raise money, it is not an achievement, it’s an obligation. When you raise money, you’re not just answerable to your customers but you’re also answerable to investors because they desire a return. Because they’ve raised money from someone who is also looking for a return....

True respect is when you respect someone even after you got to know them. It is easy to respect someone online or from a distance but that is not respect, it’s infatuation. It’s hard to replicate that respect when you know them beyond the perceived persona. Because now they’re no...

1)Always carry notebooks like a school student. One for ideas, One for to-do lists for the day and One for meeting notes

2)Putting everything on the calendar and sharing it with his significant other.

3)Having two WhatsApp self-groups. One of ...

All problems are interpersonal-relationship problems. 

So if you don’t have a good relationship with yourself then how you’re going to have a good relationship with others? It all begins with having the right relationship with the most important person, you. 

Entrepreneurship is the most brutal way to discover yourself. 

The three worst reasons to become an entrepreneur

1)Because I wanna make money.

2)Because I hate my job.

3)Because Everyone e...

Mistakes Ankur Warikoo made with money

1)Associating money with negativity and having the mindset that money is the root of all problems.

2)Taking loans to buy real estate assuming the price appreciation would take care of the interest rate he...

Don’t chase goals for two reasons

1)You do it for a destination, instead of becoming someone in the process. 

2)And you invariably start chasing another destination upon reaching one.

Instead, make habits that make you the kind of person you wa...

The book does not cover a single topic in depth but touches on several topics like awareness, habits, entrepreneurship, success, money, and relationships. The book is full of key ideas which led him to create one of the biggest personal brands in the country.

Most people who want to start a business think they should quit their job and start a start-up, not true in my opinion. Work nights and at weekends, test your idea out. The minute you have to push the start-up and work to make money is very different from, let’s see if this even works.

Definition of success changes for each individual. Risk and failure are just a state of mind, there should never be no fear or regret.

Here is an unpopular opinion, empathy can’t be taught. You are either born with it or not.

Empathy is you saying I understand what you’re going through. Sympathy is you saying I feel sorry for you. And Respect is you saying I admire the way you’re handling this.

5)He continued to maintain his expensive lifestyle when he should have lowered it. 

6)He invested in stocks when the markets went high in the hope of making fast money and he sold in panic when the markets stagged so that he doesn’t lose money. It should have been t...