Jeremy White > Quotes

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
― Jeremy White, The 4 Hour Work Week... In 20 Minutes or Less

“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. (Thomas H. Huxley, English biologist; known as "Darwin's Bulldog”
― Jeremy White, The 4 Hour Work Week... In 20 Minutes or Less

“Most people who avoid quitting their jobs entertain the thought that the job will improve with time or with an increased income. This is a tempting hallucination that occurs when a job is boring or uninspiring, instead of being pure hell. Pure hell forces action, but anything less than this can be endured with enough rationalization.”
― Jeremy White, The 4 Hour Work Week... In 20 Minutes or Less

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. (Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince”
― Jeremy White, The 4 Hour Work Week... In 20 Minutes or Less

“One cannot be free from the stresses of a speed- and size-obsessed culture, until you are free from the materialistic addictions, time-famine mindset, and comparative impulses that created it in the first place.”
― Jeremy White, The 4 Hour Work Week... In 20 Minutes or Less