What is money? It is time. You traded your time for some money at some point. Now, you're just using that money to spend somewhere else. Time is the ultimate thing ... All the money that you have, you had to invest time into.

Lead a family and your kids the same way you'd lead an organization or a team. If you bark orders at your team, your team doesn't like you, they don't respect you, and they're not going to carry out those orders with any sort of commitment.

If you want to do something that's worthwhile, it's gonna suck, and you might as well just enjoy that part of it.

If the alarm clock goes off and you get up and get out of bed, it doesn't matter what you were thinking. It doesn't matter that you wanted to sleep in. It doesn't matter that you were like, oh, this sucks. None of that matters. Did you do it? Did you get up? And did you go?

If you want financial freedom, you need financial discipline... That means you have to work hard, you have to save your money, you have to invest your money, and you have to not buy stupid things that you don't need.

The more you help your kids, the more you're hurting your kids ... If you do everything for your kids and you spoon-feed them, they're never going to know how to fend for themselves, and that's not going to be a good thing.

We all want to have financial freedom ... But if you want to get to financial freedom, what do you have to have? You have to have financial discipline. You have to have the discipline to work hard. You have to have the discipline to save your money. You have to have the discipline to invest your money properly. You have to have the discipline not to buy stupid things that you don't even actually need. And if you can have that kind of financial discipline, you'll end up with financial freedom.

Human beings can go 30 days without food. You can make it 36 hours. Do not worry. You're not gonna die.

I look at alcohol now... I've seen it destroy so many people that I kind of look at it and go, man, I don't think people should drink ... I have so many friends that it is horrible for. It has all but ruined their lives. And it's totally legal, which is kind of bizarre.

An essential skill: Be able to pause, step back, and re-evaluate your efforts if things aren’t going as planned. This isn't "quitting," it's being smart.

Turn off your brain, and go do what you're supposed to do. That's what you need to do to overcome that procrastination.

Jocko does a 24-hour fast 1-2x a week and a 72-hour fast once per quarter.

You become that person through one small decision at a time ... And who makes those decisions? Who makes those decisions? I do. You make those decisions.

This is like a road rage incident or a person that swears at the cashier in the grocery store or a person that starts a fight in a bar. They're not mad at the cashier; they're not mad at the person that cut him off... They're having a bad day or, in Will Smith's case, he's having a couple bad years, right? So, they're going to lash out. And it's not good; it's weak. It shows insecurity.

Some scientists have claimed that discipline dissipates the more it is used, that willpower is a finite resource that is reduced every time it is used throughout the day. This is wrong. That does not happen. To the contrary, I believe, and studies have shown, that discipline and willpower do not go down as they are called into action; they actually get stronger.

You might have to make some tactical retreats in order to win the long war, but never quit on your strategic vision. Never quit on getting to the ultimate place where you want to go.

On a typical night, Jocko goes to bed at 11 PM and wakes up at 4:30 AM.

Jocko takes a 8-minute nap twice a week.

If you want to be tougher, be tougher

It doesn't matter what you think or how you're thinking; what matters is what you actually do. That's what matters.

What do you need to do as a leader is, first of all, work on your own skills. Get as good as you can at the various categories. And then, when you have areas of weakness, it's okay. Be humble enough to build a team that complements your leadership weaknesses so you can become a solid leadership team.

There are a slew of psychological advantages that come from early morning physical training. First, there is a psychological win over the enemy. Knowing that you are working harder than your adversaries gives you an advantage. It gives you confidence that you can overcome them in battle.

Get on the path of discipline and stay on the path. Discipline begets discipline. Will propagates more will. Hold the line across the line, and victory will be yours.

One of the things Peter focuses on as a parent is being open with his kids when he makes a mistake (like yelling at them) and apologizing when he does so.

Sometimes, we fail to recognize what the trade-offs are and that we can actually parse them out and figure out what part of the deal you want to keep. What is actually important to you? So that you can keep the things that you care about, and you can let go of the things that you don't really care about.

Everything we let in our brain, if you're not paying attention to it, can move you. So, watch out.

When you're a leader in any organization, you're basically in charge of a mob ... And you as a leader, can't get caught up with the mob; you can't let that happen. You have to detach yourself from the mob mentally so that you don't get caught up in their emotions and their morale, because if you get caught up in their emotions and you get caught up in their morale, you can't correct it.

The expression is you are the average of the five people you hang around with the most ... It's common, and the reason it's common is because there's some level of truth to it. I think we can agree on that.

We have to be selective as to what we're going to allow into our heads. You gotta get rid of the junk at some point.

You don't get to do everything you want to do. You don't; nobody does. You don't get to spend time with your family and focus on work and focus on training and focus on learning and focus on relaxing and learning a new skill; you don't get to focus on everything. It doesn't work that way.

Actions are more important than words are.

Many people refuse to quit because of their ego

Sometimes you have to retreat, but that doesn’t mean you quit the strategic mission. Churchill said, 'Never surrender.' He didn't say, 'Never retreat.'

...Listening is the most underrated skill in leadership and as a human. You should listen a vast majority of the time.

Peter does a 5-7 day fast once per quarter.

The argument of whether you're born a leader or whether your made a leader, the answer is absolutely both.