A complex system that works is evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch almost never works - John Gall (Gall's law)

"When your boss asks for loyalty you should give honesty but if they ask for honesty you should give them loyalty." - John Boyd

"Build for one, build for many, build for many, build for none." - Brian Norgard

"The things you own end up owning you" - Unknown

"Develop the strength to do bold things not the strength to suffer." - Unknown

"The struggle ends when gratitude begins" - Unknown

"Whenever there is doubt, there is no doubt" - Ben Horowitz

"Avoiding failure is avoiding success" - Unknown

"Life punishes the vague wish but rewards the specific ask" - Tim Ferris

"The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills. He discovers the true basis for self-confidence, and he learns that the secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard" - Timothy Gallwey

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear" - Unknown

"If you can't win, change the rules. If you can't change the rules, ignore them." - Unknown

"If you want to understand something, take it to its extremes or examine its opposites" - John Boyd

"The wisest person is one who realises they are an idiot and the biggest idiot is one who doesn’t realise they are wise" - Unknown

"There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it. Remember, there is no other way. – Dale Carnegie

"Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent. It’s the most adaptive to change." - Charles Darwin

"The greatest people I’ve ever met are not rich or famous but those who have struggled through a hard life with their heads held high." - Victor Frankl

"What a man can be he must be" - Victor Frankl

"One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions" - Werner von Braun

"Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things … fail because we lack concentration — the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else? – John D. Rockefeller

"By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn’t give a damn what you like. So it’s up to you to take full responsibility to connect what you want with what you need to get it, and do those things." - Ray Dalio

"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown." - Ferdinand Magellan

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." - Aristotle

"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion." - Aristotle

"Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will" - Unknown

"Fashions start with those who want to stand out and end with those afraid of standing out" - Unknown

"Inveniam viam aut faciam (I shall either find a way or make one)" - Hannibal Barca

"The more exceptional your environment, the less exceptional you have to be" - Unknown

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." - Alexander Graham Bell

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S Patton

"Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket." - Andrew Carnegie

"I got so bloody angry with them nothing else seemed to matter" - Charles Upham

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca

"Tactics come easy when principles are in the blood" - Josh Waitzkin

"We've got no money so we've got to think." - Ernest Rutherford

"The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. - Neil Armstrong

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great

"Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies." - Howard Hughes

"There is no such thing as an unsolvable problem." - Sergei Korolev

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." - Captian James Cook

"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius." - Peter Thiel