This year, I’ve had the pleasure of listening and reading over 50 books. Here are some of the best quotes without any particular order.
Surround yourself with people who remind you more of your future than your past.
— Dan Sullivan
Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses — they maximize their strengths
— Joyce Meyer
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action
— Benjamin Disraeli
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
— ALBERT EINSTEIN
For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
— Tim Ferris
Success isn’t that difficult; it merely involves taking twenty steps in a singular direction. Most people take one step in twenty directions.
― Benjamin Hardy
Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.
― Greg Mckeown, Essentialism
There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism
Today, technology has lowered the barrier for others to share their opinion about what we should be focusing on. It is not just information overload; it is opinion overload. ― Greg McKeown
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
— Doug Firebaugh
No is a complete sentence.
— Anne Lamott
You have two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only have one.
― Confucius
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.
— Alan Watts
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win
— Bill Bradley
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”
― Ernest Hemingway
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
― Anton Chekhov
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
— Steve Jobs
Instead of trying to build a brick wall, lay a brick every day. Eventually, you’ll look up and you’ll have a brick wall.
— Nipsey Hussle
People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.
— Naval Ravikant
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
— Henry Ford
Today is brutal, tomorrow is more brutal, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful. However, the majority of people will die tomorrow night.
— Jack Ma
