經典好書重點摘要:The Top 10 Rules for Success－Less Is More

My Key Points

One of the best ways to be great is to surround yourself with greatness.

Rule 1: Follow Your Passion
“The key point is: you’ve got to enjoy what you do every day.” Bill Gates
Find the thing that you would do even if you never got paid for it.
You become the best by loving what you do more than anyone else and following that passion through.
Rule 2: Have Self-Awareness
Understand what your good at, what you have Michael Jordan level talent at, and they pursue that instead of trying to do everything themselves.
Rule 3: Raise Your Standards
“Develop the habit of giving more than what you’re paid for. Develop the habit of setting standards that others will be measured by. Do not go where the path may lead, but go where there’s no path and leave a trail.” (Les Brown)
Rule 4: Focus
Stop jumping from idea to idea and just focus. That’s where the magic will happen.
Rule 5: Work Hard
Look at anybody who has had success that you look up to. They put in the hard work to get there.
The goal of freeing up your time is so that you can use the extra time that you now have to focus on your big goal and continue working hard.
Forever and ever. There is no retirement when you’re truly committed.
Rule 6: Embrace Failure
You must fail 100 times to succeed once, that’s part of it. No one succeeds the first time. I had to teach myself early on, expect to fail, expect it, cover it, welcome it, it’s going to happen. But it’s not a permanent state. (Sylvester Stallone)
Most people are so afraid to fail that they don’t even try, and that’s the biggest failure of all.
The key is just to fail small.
If you’re failing, it means you’re trying something. And if you keep following your passion, focusing, and working hard, eventually you’ll hit on something big that works. But it only come through action.
Rule 7: Ignore the #LittleMan
“Think of the amount of time, that is wasted on negative energy, wondering what other people think of you. What they think of you really doesn’t make any difference. It’s what you think of you that makes a difference.” (Bob Proctor)
We’re worried about failing in front of other people.
You will never have the success you’re after if you’re living your life according to other people’s expectations.
Rule 8: Build a Team
Rule 9: Model Success
If you study the success clues that others have left behind before you, they can shortcut your path to achieving your mission.
Study people in your industry who have made it as well as your heroes outside the industry.
Rule 10: #Believe

STEVE JOBS
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

Steve Jobs Summary

1.Don’t Sell Crap

2.Build a Great Team

3.Don’t Do if for the Money

4.Be Proud of Your Products

5.Marketing is About Values

6.Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

TONY ROBBINS
You don’t always get your goals, but you always get your standards.
We live who we believe we are.
You’ve got to separate the vehicle from the outcome. What is it that’s going to truly fulfil you?
What is your gift?
What is an extraordinary life, on your terms, today?
Progress equals happiness.
If you can’t sell your business, if you don’t have an exit strategy, you have a job.
Success, by the way, is not some overnight event. It’s all these little things.
Activity without high levels of purpose is the drain of your fortune.

Tony Robbins Summary

1.Raise Your Standards

2.Progress Equals Happiness

3.Add Value

4.Have an Exit Strategy

5.Pay Attention to the Little Things

6.Look for Leverage

7.Change Your Mindset

SIMON SINEK
Deal with pressure by interpreting what your body is experiencing as excitement rather than nerves.
Joy comes not from comparison, but from advancement.
The things you say and do are symbols of who you are.
Passion is the feeling you have that you would probably do this for free and you can’t believe somebody pays you to do it.

Simon Sinek Summary

1.Train Your Mind

2.Be Patient

3.Take Accountability

4.Be Authentic

5.Find Your Passion

6.Start with Why

Bill Gates Summary

1.Overcome Your Fear of Risk

2.Always Be a Student

3.Work Hard

4.Enjoy What You Do

5.Be Fanatical

6.Ask For Advice

7.Don’t Procrastinate

ERIC THOMAS
What do you want? And then once you find out what you want, spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it.
There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse.
You’ve never looked at yourself in the mirror and said you let you down.
You need to put yourself in punishment.
You need to start pointing fingers at yourself.
Your value system says you are a consumer and not a producer. And you’re spending more money than you’re making.
If you’re grinding six, seven days a week for a span of five or six years, something’s got to come out of that.

Eric Thomas Summary

1.Work on Your Gift

2.No Excuses

3.What is Your “Why”?

4.Succeed as Bad as You Want to Breathe

SADHGURU
Fear is happening because of excessive imagination.
The things that you fear, probably 99 of them never happened.

Sadhguru Summary

Don’t Set Incentives for Sickness

WARREN BUFFETT
Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You are going to do well at it.

Warren Buffett Summary

1.Don’t Care What Others Think

2.Read, Read, Read

3.Schedule for Your Personality

4.Model Success

5.Give Unconditional Love

ROBERT KIYOSAKI
What FOCUS stands for is this: Follow One Course Until You’re Successful.
When I meet somebody who doesn’t have any money, it just means that they’re not giving something.
The discipline I had to get into was I was paying myself first.
Follow one course until you’re successful, and then keep doing it because once you find the way of being successful, you can do it again and again and again.

Robert Kiyosaki Summary

1.Give More, Receive More

2.Hard Times Bring Opportunities

3.Know What You’re Working For

4.Don’t Be Afraid of Losses

5.Stop Saving Money, Hedge It

JACK MA
The secret code for everybody is keep your dream alive because it might come true some day.
Where the opportunity is, is where the complaints are.

Jack Ma Summary

1.Get Used to Rejection

2.Keep Your Dream Alive

Oprah Winfrey Summary

1.Understand the Next Move

2.Work on Yourself

3.Run as Hard as You Can

LES BROWN
Accept conditions as they exist or take the responsibility to change them.
Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Les Brown Summary

1.Amaze Your Customers

2.Go All Out

3.Stay Busy

4.Give More Than You’re Paid For

5.Don’t Stop

Gary Vaynerchuk Summary

1.Execute Your Ideas

2.Don’t Overlook Storytelling

3.Do the Things That Matter

WAYNE DYER
Some of us hear a different drummer. We must march to the music that we hear.

Wayne Dyer Summary

1.Don’t Put Boundaries On You

2.Don’t Die With Your Music Still In You

WILL SMITH
Living in service. I feel that is the purest form of joy. Your life means something to somebody other than you.
The difference between depression and joy, I think is purpose.
Whatever it is that you love crazy, has to be the thing that you dedicate your life to.
If you stay ready you ain’t got to get ready.

Will Smith Summary

Don’t Chase Money

CONOR MCGREGOR
Gratitude is one of the strongest forms of power in attracting good things.
I carry on day by day already living the final goal.

Conor McGregor Summary

1.Love What You Do

2.Carry On

3.Have Courage to Speak Up

4.Prove Them Wrong

5.Think Outside the Box

6.Be Grateful

7.Have Heroes

8.Live Everyday Like a Champion

DONALD TRUMP
You have to love what you do. When you love what you do you, you work harder.
To be a winner you have to think like a winner.

Donald Trump Summary

1.Don’t Do it for the Money

2.Never Give Up

3.Love What You Do

ELON MUSK
Now is the time to take risk. Do something bold! You won’t regret it.
You have to prove yourself not wrong.
If you like what you’re doing, you think about it even when you’re not working.
If something’s important enough, you should try even if the problem outcome is failure.

Elon Musk Summary

1.Expect to Fail

2.Take a Risk

3.Do Something Important

4.Focus on Signal over Noise

5.Look for Problem Solvers

JORDAN BELFORT
If you can’t sell, if you can’t influence, if you can’t persuade, good luck trying to get your business off the ground.
Possess the ability to sell the vision to other people.

Jordan Belfort Summary

1.Learn to Sell

2.Be Honest With Yourself

3.Try Your Hardest

Mark Zuckerberg Summary

1.You Get What You Spend Your Time Doing

2.Start Small

3.Care the Most About It

4.Social Bonds Are Critical

JOE ROGAN
Difficult moments are what build your character.
Through difficult tasks, you learn an incredible amount about yourself.
One of the worst decisions a man can make is to be comfortable.
Sometimes we have to pull yourself up and you have to push forward even if you want to stay in bed.
A big part of success is just not being fucking lazy and just doing it. 90% of it is just showing up.

Joe Rogan Summary

1.Be the Hero of Your Own Movie

2.Be the Best Version of Yourself

3.Explore Difficult Tasks

4.Push Forward

BOB PROCTOR
Your purpose is why you get out of bed in the morning.
We should start to think, and build images in our mind, of what we’d like to do, and then set out and do it.
You should seek failures. If you’re playing it safe, you’re not going to win.
It’s by trying things that you figure out how far you can go.
If you’re not prepared to lose, you’re never going to win because you’re always playing it safe.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell)
Act like the person you want to become.

Bob Proctor Summary

1.Seek Failures

2.Conquer Your Own Limitations

3.Don’t Worry About What Others Think of You

DENZEL WASHINGTON
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
You don’t have to compromise yourself. If it’s something you don’t feel good about, then don’t do it.
If you don’t feel like you should do it, then don’t do it. I think the most important decisions you could make is saying no.
Anything you want, good. You can have. So claim it. Work hard to get it. When you get it, reach back, pull someone else up.
Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Denzel Washington Summary

1.Ignore the Opinions of Others

2.Share Your Gift

2.Fall Forward

4.Know Your Priorities

5.Don’t Quit

ZIG ZIGLAR
The people who wait end up getting cooked. The rule is simple. You do it now. You do it now.
Commitment plays heavily in everything.
You’ve got to put something in before you can expect to get anything out. Isn’t it true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you can learnt to do it well?

Zig Ziglar Summary

1.Think Like a Champion

2.Be Committed

3.Do it Right Now!

4.Keep Your Word

5.Evaluate Where You Are

6.Have Integrity

Dalai Lama Summary

1.Help Others

2.Don’t Care What Others Say

3.Pay Attention to Your Inner Values

4.Have Compassion

5.Be Determined

6.Develop Friendships

Tim Ferriss Summary

1.Be Able to Sell

2.Let Small Bad Things Happen

Nelson Mandela Summary

1.Prove Them Wrong

2.Demand Respect

3.Make Your Enemy Your Partner

4.Be Humble

5.Have Heroes

6.Lead From Behind

Morgan Freeman Summary

1.Build Word of Mouth

2.Be Courageous

3.Show Your Ability

4.Learn from Others

5.Hold On to Your Values

6.Keep Going

SYLVESTER STALLONE
It’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!
Fear is the fuel we use for overachievement.
Just roll the dice and say, ‘I’ve got to try it. Just do it. I may be totally wrong but I just believe in it.’

Sylvester Stallone Summary

1.Get it Done

2.Just Keep Going

3.Use Fear to Fuel You

4.Love Challenge

Tupac Shakur Summary

1.Search for Knowledge

2.Be a Real Model

3.Spark a Change in the World

4.Get Up and Keep Trying

SIR RICHARD BRANSON
Pick yourself up and start again. And if it doesn’t work at that time then keep going until you do succeed, and not to give up.
An entrepreneur is somebody who is great at conceiving ideas, starting ideas, building idea.
Create something to make a difference in other people’s lives.

Sir Richard Branson Summary

1.Keep it Simple

2.Give it a Try

3.Be a Leader

4.Treat People Well

5.Shake Things Up

6.People Will Be Skeptical

MARK CUBAN
Small businesses don’t fail for lack of capital. They fail for lack of brains. They fail for lack of effort. Most people just aren’t willing to put in the time to work smart.