I also think you age a lot quicker if you can’t keep yourself busy and under the right, healthy dose of stress.
You’ll appreciate your amazing career so much more when you look back at your not-so-amazing jobs in the past, and hopefully realize that you learned something from all of them.
When I’m not working, I’m still working.
If and when your hard work pays off, these things start to suck less.
It’s that buying the Porsche, in all of its German-engineered perfection, just wasn’t as special. Nothing will ever compare to the first time I bought myself a car, because it simply can’t be done again.
I want to make people happy or make them laugh -even if it’s at my own expense.
I want people who are comfortable with disagreement.
Silhouette is what makes anything successful.
Figure out what you love doing and don’t suck at, then try to figure out how to make a living doing that.
I especially love a handwritten not because to me, someone who knows to have good manners knows how to get what she wants in the world.
Breaking the rules just for fun is too easy – the real challenge lies in perfecting the art of knowing which rules to accept and which to rewrite.
Chances are it will take twenty of those good ideas before one sticks and has a chance to become real, but a good idea is only good if there is a well-thought-out plan to make it a reality.
A lot of the time, even the CEO only has about ten percent of the info needed to make a good decision. Speaking.
If you learn to control your finances, you won’t find yourself stuck in jobs, places, or relationships that you hate just because you can’t afford to go elsewhere. Learning how to manage your money is one of the most important things you’ll ever do. Being in a good spot financially can open up so many doors. Being in a bad spot can slam them in your face. And being broke gets old, so start making smart decisions now to avoid paying for stupid ones later.
You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create... You will make sacrifices and compromises, get let down and let other people down, fail and start over... But difficult doesn’t mean impossible.
Learning how to manage your money is one of the most important things you’ll ever do.
I’d already lived an entire life feeling so far out of place that I’d given up hope that any one thing, place, person, or occupation could be my calling.
Yet it taught me a lesson: While it’s okay to be friends with my investor, it’s not okay to be friends with my direct reports. If you need someone to listen as you drag your psyche across the coals, find a friend or a therapist, but don’t do it with someone you’re expected to manage on a daily basis.
Being in a good spot financially can open up so many doors.
Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully immerse yourself in your culture.
In a city full of noise, he’d found light by living in the shadows.