Quotes 2.0
September 8, 2016
Joshua Tiong
Following my previous post about quotes that have inspired me along the way (up to Feb 18, 2016), I am putting together a new post with more quotes that I find myself relating to during my current walk of life. Will be adding to this post until it feels like it's time to draw a line in the sand again (Summer 2016 to December 2016).
Do what you can do, as well as you can do it, every day of your life; and you will end up dying one of the happiest individuals that ever died.
Howard Lyman
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
Wells Fargo executive [Good to Great]
Make your peace with the fact that saying "no" often requires trading popularity for respect.
Greg McKeown [Essentialism]
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman
Once you realize that you don't need a special occasion to buy a cake, the second part of your life begins.
Simon Holland
I will take responsibility for this bad decision. But we will all take responsibility for extracting the maximum learning from the tuition we've paid.
Joe Cullman
Encode the things that work for you. Give it a name so it's easy to talk about.
Mark Roberge
The game I’m in is maximum happiness for the maximum amount of time. What I found is one of the things that makes me really happy is to work on stuff that I care about with people I really like working with, with the independence of nobody telling me what the fuck to do.
David Heinemeier Hansson
I think credentials matter for certain industries, but my biggest credential is the results I get for my readers.
Ramit Sethi
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine