Tai Lopez quotes: tips on living the good life: health, wealth, love, happiness… and let’s not forget, knowledge.
Some of the quotes are obviously Tai quoting or paraphrasing other thought leaders or books. But still. He gets an “assist” for passing it on to the masses, doesn’t he?
Anyways, to set the mood, I’ll start with the meme-worthy and get more serious as it goes.
“Heyyy.”
“Here in my garage…”
“Here in my backyard…”
“Just bought this, uh, new Lamborghini here.”
“It’s fun to drive up here in the Hollywood Hills.”
“But you know what I like more than materialistic things? Knawledge.”
“Now maybe you’ve seen my TEDx talk…”
“I don’t call it money anymore; I call it fuel units.”
“I was just laying in my bed, about to have a knowledge session.”
“People always ask me…”
“Then I’d tell myself toughen up, Tai.”
“I read a book a day.”
“I’ve got the largest book club outside of Oprah.”
“It’s harder to not be idiotic than most of us think.”
“Quotes could save your life.”
“Look around the room. If you can’t spot the sucker, it’s probably you.”
“If you’re walking down the sidewalk and somebody jumps you? That’s your fault.”
“There are four pillars of the good life: health, wealth, love, and happiness.”
“Everybody wants the good life, but not everybody gets the good life.”
“Double down on what’s working. Cut the rest.”
“People think I’m joking when I say that whoever experiments the most in life wins. But I’m not.”
“So many people are in the gym working on their six pack but they forget the six pack for their brain.”
“If I could have one super power, without a doubt, it would be the ability to stay cool under intense pressure. What could be more important?”
“Good artists copy; great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso
“If it won’t matter in one week, one month, or one year? Then don’t worry about it.”
“The penalty for procrastination is the loss of hopes and dreams.”
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”
“You can get most things you want in life. It’s just that most goals will take one or two years longer than expected. Be patient.”
“Be quick but never in a hurry.” – John Wooden
“Create a lifestyle where you can’t lose; so that, if your original plan doesn’t work out, the backup plan is just as good.”
“Never sacrifice physical health in the pursuit of money. That’s a given. Figure out a strategy to raise both simultaneously. It’s tricky.”
“Most people worry about being scammed. But the thing is, you’ve already been scammed by the education system and the 9-to-5 job.”
“You can run from your problems but not from the flaws in your thinking. Always start by fixing your brain. Train it to remove logical fallacies.”
“Prepare for hard times when it’s easy.”
“It’s basically impossible to teach someone if they aren’t curious about the subject. This is where modern schooling goes wrong.”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
“You can innovate your way out of any problem.” – Jeff Bezos
“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.”
“Whenever I feel like whining, I remind myself: wake up Tai, the world doesn’t owe you anything.”
“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, and that you didn’t settle for it.”
“Before you go out and occupy Wall Street, occupy your own brain.”
“As you rise, the number of critics will also rise. Humans seek out negativity. It’s a cognitive bias of their brains. Stay focused and proceed.”
“Patience is a lost art. Everybody rushes.”
“My favorite way to make money is while I sleep.”
“You can’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“The space between failure and success seems large. It’s not. The difference between a good carpenter and a bad one is about a quarter of an inch.”
“Remember that your brain isn’t built for happiness. It’s built for survival. Happiness is something you have to create after the fact.”
“The day you figure out your career destiny is the day your true financial freedom begins.”
“Do not put off tomorrow what you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin
“There will be a day soon when you have to make your big move. When that day comes, be bold.”
“Your life should be dominated by only one main fear: and that is, not fully optimizing today. That’s the healthiest fear in the world.”
“If you have to go on vacation from your job, never come back.” – Joel Salatin
“The weakness of both intuition and logic is that logic can be too slow and intuition can be too fast.”
“Be careful about discouraging people’s dreams. They might just pull them off.”
“Never confuse education with intelligence.”
“Number one rule for becoming a millionaire: you gotta hang out with people who would be embarrassed for only making $1 million dollars a year.”
“Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean
“Failure is merely an opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”
“One thing I’ve noticed with the successful: they don’t spend a lot of time on the past.”
“Make a list of the people you admire and what makes them amazing. Then go out and become those things yourself.”
“The tough truth about life is that some things just take time. Most people aren’t strong enough to deal with that fact.”
“Leaders are readers.”
“Your brain finds happiness in mastering skills. It’s been that way since you were little. So don’t stop mastering life as you get older.”
“Try to go to bed a little wiser and a little less ignorant than when you woke up.” – Charlie Munger
“Divide up your life. Spend 33% of your time around people lower than you – you can mentor them. Spend 33% of your time with people that are on your level – your friends and peers. Spend 33% of your time with people that are 10 or 20 years ahead of you – those are your mentors.”
“Never chase what you want. Elevate your game until what you want chases you.”
“First rule to making more money: get excited for the future before it actually happens.”
“When you walk into a room and you talk a lot, you’re going to walk out of that room with the same level of knowledge that you entered with.”
“If I could go back in time, I would’ve listened a lot less to most people… and listened a lot more to a small handful of them.”
“I think the main reason I became an entrepreneur was for the freedom. I’ve never really liked people having control over me.”
“If you’re sleeping less than 7-8 hours, you aren’t being more productive. You’re being falsely efficient. You can sleep and still do big things.”
“Never argue with stupid people. They’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” – Mark Twain
“No one big ever made it alone. Build an elite team around you.”
“I now realize that every human has a dark side and a good side. Who you surround yourself with determines which of those you become.”
“There are many things that can motivate and drive you. Make sure envy isn’t one of them.”
“Sometimes pain is your gift. It forces you to pay attention to all of the things you’ve ignored.”
You’ve been learnt by Lopez. Now go see how much he’s worth.
