Displine Notes

Aviators, however, add a fourth expectation, Discipline: discipline in following prudent
procedure and in functioning with others. This is a concept almost entirely outside the
lexicon of most professions.

Discipline is hard - harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than
selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep
from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty
and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to
work at.

I realized very quickly that discipline was not only the most important quality for an
individual but also for a team.

The more disciplined standard operating procedures (SOPs) a team employs, the more
freedom they have to practice Decentralized Command and thus they can execute
faster, sharper, and more efficiently

Instead of making us more rigid and unable to improvise, this discipline actually made
us more flexible, more adaptable, and more efficient. It allowed us to be creative

When things went wrong and the fog of war set in, we fell back on our disciplined
procedures to carry us through the toughest challenges on the battlefield.

Discipline -- strict order, regimen, and control -- might appear to be the opposite of total
freedom -- the power to act, speak, or think without and restrictions. But, in fact,
discipline is the pathway to freedom.

Sustaining an effort is the most important thing for any enterprise. The way to be
successful is to learn how to do things right, then do them same way every time

Unfortunately, it's common for people to lose focus in that last inch, compromising all the
work they and their teams have done to get where they are.​

The way you do one thing is the way you do everything, and we found, over and over,
that precision in the smallest of details translated to precision in bigger ones.

Wise people stick with sound fundamentals through the ups and downs, while flighty
people react emotionally to how things feel, jumping into things when they're hot and
abandoning them when they're not.

Doing what you set out to do requires self-discipline, good work habits, and a results
orientation

Each day, do what you should do before what you want to do

When you do the things you have to do when you have to do them, the day
will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do
them

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for
the practice

I do this by using systems, which are nothing more than good strategies repeated.

Little things can be won easily through systems and personal discipline

Five words separate the good from the great: flawless execution of the
fundamentals.

The difference between those who fail and those who succeed is the courage to
act - repeatedly

Deliberate practice is a highly structured activity with the specific goal of improving
performance. It requires continuous evaluation, feedback, and a lot of mental effort.

Yet deliberate practice is designed to focus specifically on those things you are
weak at, and this requires you to practice those skills repeatedly until you master
them.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Doing what is hard now rather than doing what is easy. Over time, this builds up the
muscle of discipline, strengthens one's skills and capabilities, and compounds into a
much greater level of success and satisfaction.

The idea of kaizen is to make such small changes in your life that your brain doesn't
even realize that you are trying to change and therefore doesn't get in the way

If you want to form the habit of reading one annual report a day, start with reading one
page of an annual report a day. then increase it to two pages, then three, and so on

You just need to keep playing your own game, regardless of the game others are
playing. Never confuse your time frame with someone else's.

​Our results today are the fruits of the hard work done in the past.

Work to get better every day. Staying the same gets you nowhere.​

Excellence is a matter of steps.​

It was this intense self-discipline and objectivity that allowed Rockefeller to seize advantage from obstacle after obstacle in his life.

This is what great investors cultivate, a rational self-command that allows them to see what others can', to size up situations and anticipate what's coming next... and ten to take advantage of it.  

Discipline in perception lets your clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation - without the perstilence of panic or fear.

"The greatest empire," Seneca - an advisor to emperors and a wealthy man himself - would say, "is command of yourself."