Every time I talk with @FoundersPodcast (and listening to the podcast of course), I hear new powerful maxims. I’ve been collecting what he learned from decades of studying founders. 1. Money comes naturally as a result of service. 2. Ordinary things, done with extraordinary focus, over an extraordinary period of time. 3. Find an earned secret and exploit it for two or three decades. 4. Be a professional opportunist. 5. Opportunity arrives after a loss. 6. The best financial decisions are not financial decisions. 7. You don't need to be a genius; you just need to collect more information. 8. Reading is not hard—pick up a book and stare at it. If you're not doing that, you're not serious. 9. Wise people don't solve problems; they avoid them. 10. Genius has the fewest moving parts. 11. Those at the margins often come to control the center. 12. Mute the world, build your own. 13. Don't do anything that someone else can do. 14. A natural monopoly is ideal, but if not, take an oligopoly. 15. Invest heavily in the technologies of the day. 16. Ideas that are easy to understand are easy to spread. 17. Make yourself easy to interface with. 18. Relationships run the world. 19. History doesn’t repeat; human nature does. 20. Quality of your life is the direct result of the quality of your decisions. 21. Don't learn to deal with stress; learn to enjoy it. 22. Belief comes before ability. 23. Problems are opportunities in work clothes. 24. Books are made out of books. 25. Bad boys move in silence. 26. Learning from history is a form of leverage. ...