Several quotes from "Conscious Business"

I realized that the people oppressing me had absolutely no concern whatsoever for my well-being. I realized that the only way I could improve my situation was to take responsibility to protect myself. I stopped expecting the rulers, who only had ill will toward me, to change, I decided to do what I could, given that they wouldn’t.

External facts are not stimuli—they are information.

If you are the one suffering, you are the one with the problem. And that means that you are the one who had better take corrective action. If you expect the ones who made the decision that suited their needs to solve your problem, I wish you luck.

Discipline is the capacity to maintain awareness and choose consciously in the face of instinctual pressures….as an individual, you need discipline beause you are genetically programmed to respond instinctually to immediate risks or opportunities in the environment.

A good life subordinates success to integrity.