The fact that knives get dull from work and horses die of it, should be interpreted. Its essence is that one shouldn't work everywhere, not a lot and not thoughtlessly, but only when the work is needed and in an effective and rational way, as dull knives and dead horses are not needed.
Look at work strategically. Salary and difficulties are not the main thing, the main thing-experience, training, Dating, reputation... The most valuable thing in the work is the opportunity to train your skills at someone else's expense.
During the probationary period in training, a person is intentionally put under stress to see how he copes with it. If the person is strong, he shall remain calm and reasonable.
It's impossible to be liked by everyone but it's important to list all people that should like you personally. This list should contain people important and influential for you, hence the ones who may influence your personal life, career and promotion.
If you see a job, grab it like a lifeline. The harder the job, the better. But do not chase the number, and look harder. The more monstrous the task, the more interesting it is to work.
Make sure you do easy things first. Today, one thing is easy and tomorrow something else is. If you are lucky, you will not have to do hard things at all. Easy things will be done magically and effectively, bringing you enormous profits.
You need to love your parents in order not to be afraid of them. You need to love your enemies in order not to be afraid of them. You should love life, work, and people for the same reasons. Love is knowledge. As we learn, we stop being afraid.
The strength of robots is that they do not suffer from depression, therefore, can dispassionately do the most useless work, so turning a lie into truth.
The right people don't work because they love their work, and it's a joy and a rest for them... Therefore, they rest in the sweat of their faces from 5 am until late at night... for there is no greater joy than doing what you love.
If you put all unnecessary thoughts out of your head and focus on your business ...any business acquires such properties as fruitfulness and joy. The Hasidim even say that if you pray and work without joy, then you are a liar.
The sententiosity about how one should work and go all out, is really harmful in itself. As doing things this way will lead to a person's fatigue and degradation. What's more, finally it will significantly slow down a person's efficiency. Spending 20% of time and efforts on work is the best variant as the remaining time and efforts should be spent on self-development, rest and sport.
Keep it simple that means less chatter. Simplicity is a zone of low pressure, where energy flows from the chaos zone, where the pressure is ultra-high.
There are exceptions to all laws, so, basically, you can apply any rule the other way round and see what happens. However, it would be more original to apply it differently rather than the other way round because truth is not a double-edged sword but a three-dimensional sphere.
You'll need social connections for your career, but where do you get them? Where to take them you will come up with yourself, but remember that you will interfere with fear, laziness, ignorance and lies. People like honest, courageous and useful in business people, and all others don't like.
Redundant words, redundant questions, redundant answers… Of course, it is best to keep silence but silence may also be redundant. Taciturnity often accompanies stupidity and cowardice.
Every person should have something special about himself. This something special helps differentiate among people. If a person has nothing special about him, he is hard to remember. He becomes invisible, so to say.
Success is something like a point and a universe at the same time. Success seems to be instantaneous, but the truth is that the universe has been created for decades. The point is that you build the universe in the dark, and success is just when the light is turned on and it illuminates the world already created before in the dark.
The ability to be honest and tell the truth is the ability to tell bad news. To break the news to hard, scary and requires a lot of force. It takes a lot of hard training to learn to tell the truth.
Man's essence: he is a servant, he is a tool, he is hands; it serves the world, serves the information field, serves the information that tries to enter the real world through it, to acquire materiality... Man was created to work, the essence and purpose of it is to work or make others work. Every vanity and pride of man is contrary to Providence, for how can a lathe put itself above a Turner?
Neuroticism is useful, the neurotic is able to concentrate his attention and love on his goal and fanatically serve it. Plus neurotics are vain, which makes them reference careerists, mad scientists and stars of show business. The only question is what exactly he will concentrate his love on.
A reliable man is a man whom one can trust and in whom one can have faith – it’s a good man. Those in whom one cannot have faith are bad and we call them sinners.
One should relax and restore after work, and working in non-working hours is a sin, leading to early worn out of a person exhaustion of his forces and lowering productivity of labor.
Hens are not always eaten, some of them lay golden eggs. A sheep is a valuable source of wool. Donkeys can work for you well. And one better buy a more powerful opponent off or avoid direct conflicts, than risk one's head fighting him.
Many people's feeling that they give more than get back is often linked with being inattentive to people. You give people what you want and as much as you want, ignoring their real needs and desires. You think you're of high value, but in fact your value is extremely low, and what you get back is your fair price.
If you want to raise your price-raise your value. Study people, study their desires
