If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Take the pains required to become what you want to become.
If you want to sell a car and you spend five dollars to wash and polish it and then apply a little extra elbow grease, suddenly you find you can charge an extra four hundred dollars, and get it.My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.Most people think small because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.You can’t be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.We won by wearing everyone else down. We never gave up, and the opposition slowly began to melt away.I have an unlimited appetite for pain. That’s a secret to my success. I just can’t give up.You can’t give up. You are going to have times when you feel there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. I had times like that and I had a choice: I could sit in the corner with my thumb in my mouth, or I could fight. My advice to you is: Punch like hell and don’t take no for an answerWe took our strengths and promoted them to the skies.it’s a little tough to find anyone up at four in the morning.When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price.It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.I couldn’t sell him on my experience or my accomplishment, so instead I sold him on my energy and my enthusiasmI don’t sleep more than four hours a night. I have friends who need twelve hours a night and I tell them they’re at a major disadvantage in terms of playing the game.I have a friend who is extraordinarily smart. But he never became successful, because he couldn’t take pressure. He was buying a home and it was literally killing him—a man of forty with an I.Q. of probably a hundred and ninety. He called me one day for the umpteenth time, worrying about his mortgage and I was sitting in my chair, thinking to myself, Here I am, buying the shuttle, the Plaza Hotel, and I don’t lose an ounce of sleep over any of it. That’s lucky genes.Even if you haven’t encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can’t bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life and theirs a lot more pleasant.
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