“Before you evolve, you can reasonably spend time with just about anyone. To be successful, you can't continue being with low-frequency people for long periods of time. Your days must consistently be spent on high-quality activities. Your choices must become higher quality. Your relationships must become higher quality.”
“The more successful you become, the less you can justify low quality. The more focused you must become. The more consistently your daily behaviors must be high quality — and increasingly higher quality. This isn't about perfection. It's definitely not about being busy all the time. Actually, the balance of true success involves what Tim Ferriss calls "mini-retirements" or regular sabbaticals. Yet, if your daily behaviors are consistently low quality, what do you expect your life's output to be?”