Penelope Trunk > Quotes

“Reading a book is making space for a new idea in your heart, and it might be merely a page or a paragraph or a turn of a phrase. Reading is letting sparks flight where they might catch, there is danger and recklessness, and god I love reading so much, even though I rarely read a book.”
― Penelope Trunk

“How many more investment bankers need to show up in court before people stop incriminating themselves in writing?”
― Penelope Trunk, Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success

“Assume that everything you write via e-mail will appear in the business section of the newspaper.”
― Penelope Trunk, Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success

“There are no lazy people, only people pressured to do someone else’s idea of a good life.”
― Penelope Trunk, For the Soul Searcher

“If you are not annoying someone you are not doing anything new.”
― Penelope Trunk