Quotes


Below is an accumulation of quotes from my readings, which I aim to update as I progress.


  • "Travel isn’t just for changing what’s outside, it’s for reinventing what’s inside." —Tim Ferris

  • “He who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary.” — Seneca

  • ”When 99% of people doubt you, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.” — Peter Diamandis

  • ”The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.” — Tony Robbins

  • “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first four sharpening the axe.” — Abraham Lincoln

  • ”Be so good they can’t ignore you.’” — Steve Martin

  • “My one repeated learning in life: ‘There are no adults.’ Everyone’s making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it.” — Naval Ravikant

  • “ Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call ‘ life ’ was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” — Steve Jobs

  • “My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.” — Marc Andreessen

  • ”To do original work: It’s not necessary to know something nobody else knows. It is necessary to believe something few other people believe.” — Marc Andreessen

  • “Andy Grove had the answer: For every metric, there should be another ‘ paired ’ metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric.” — Marc Andreessen

  • “‘Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves." — Peter Lynch

  • ”I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.” —Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • ”When I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93 % of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end.”

  • “Losers react, leaders anticipate.” — Tony Robbins

  • "Empires get built when things are quiet"