Zack Friedman > Quotes

“Everyone has a shot at greatness.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“After the struggle, there’s greatness on the other side.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“The deepest valleys are closer than you think to the nearest mountaintops.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Be you—your authentic, imperfect self.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Gratitude is the antidote to entitlement.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Don’t demand respect; earn it. Don’t expect loyalty; build it.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Yesterday was the last day you said, ‘I can’t.’ Today is the first day you say, ‘I will.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Life isn’t won and lost on the first day.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“your life today is the result of choices. Some choices you made, while others were made for you. What about your life tomorrow?”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“The Lemon Life is about settling for something less than your full potential. When you settle, you don’t actively control your life path, and you allow others to shape your destiny. The Lemon Life is accepting your life as it is—the status quo as a permanent state.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“The Five Es Explore The more opportunities you explore, the more opportunities you can create. Endeavor Your journey may not be the shortest distance. When you endeavor, you focus on your own unique journey. Experiment Keep experimenting to find the right formula, the right solution, and the right choice for you. Embrace Embrace opportunities, people, and obstacles to get from your starting point to your endpoint. Engage Engage in everything you do with”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“The only game you should be playing is one-on-one. This is you against you. You, and only you, are in control of your life. You’re working on yourself. You make your own decisions on your terms. You have the power to decide your future. When you fall into the trap of social comparison, it’s a losing game.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Entrepreneurship is a lonely road to greatness.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Avoid the herd mentality to gain freedom of choice.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“psychologists and neuroscientists16 have shown empirically that the traditional model—that success leads to happiness—is broken. According to Shawn Achor, success doesn’t lead to happiness; happiness drives success. It’s what Achor calls the Happiness Advantage, which says that “happiness is the precursor to success17, not merely the result.” Per Achor, “the greatest competitive advantage18 in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Here’s the thing: it’s only true that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks if the dog is unwilling to learn.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“The only thing you’re entitled to in life is nothing.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything

“Excuses are barriers between dreams and actions.”
― Zack Friedman, The Lemonade Life: How to Fuel Success, Create Happiness, and Conquer Anything