Hard work is critical, a good team is essential, brains and determination are invaluable, but luck may decide the outcome.
I refused to even consider ordering less inventory. Grow or die, that’s what I believed, no matter the situation.
Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.
If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt. I’d.
People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that’s only true of people who can forget the competition.
I wanted what everyone wants. To be me, full-time.
What if there were a way, without being an athlete, to feel what athletes feel? To play all the time, instead of working? Or else to enjoy work so much that it becomes essentially the same thing.
All is vanity, says the Bible. All is now, says Zen, All is dust, says the desert.
You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.” I.
He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to – equally important qualities in a friend.
Why is it always so hard to get started?
Like it or not, life is a game. Whoever denies that truth, whoever simply refuses to play, gets gets left on the sidelines, and I didn’t want that.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
No matter the sport-no matter the human endeavor, really-total effort will win people’s hearts.
Whatever comes, just don’t stop. That’s.
I told her that I flat-out didn’t want to work for someone else. I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.
Fight not to win, but to avoid losing. A surefire losing strategy.
But my hope was that when I failed, if I failed, I’d fail quickly, so I’d have enough time, enough years, to implement all the hard-won lessons. I wasn’t much for setting goals, but this goal kept flashing through my mind every day, until it became my internal chant: Fail fast.
I tell the man Blue Ribbon is sinking like the Titanic, and he responds by begging for a berth in first class.
The cowards never started and the weak died along the way – that leaves us.