Arman Ghieratmand > Arman's Quotes

“Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“life shrinks and expands on the proportion of your willingness to take risks and try new things.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness – Timeless Marketing Insights for Business Success

“I put zero weight into anyone’s opinion about me because I know exactly who I am. Can you say the same? When”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness – Timeless Marketing Insights for Business Success

“Wake up before everybody else and work into the night.         Hustle”
― Gary Vaynerchuk, #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness – Timeless Marketing Insights for Business Success

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Start with the end in mind. ”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Don’t flash an immediate smile when you greet someone, as though anyone who walked into your line of sight would be the beneficiary. Instead, look at the other person’s face for a second. Pause. Soak in their persona. Then let a big, warm, responsive smile flood over your face and overflow into your eyes. It will engulf the recipient like a warm wave. The split-second delay convinces people your flooding smile is genuine and only for them.”
― Leil Lowndes, How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

“A wise politician, when asked if he were for or against Prohibition, answered: If by alcohol, you mean the dangerous drink which destroys families, than I am fully for Prohibition. But if, by alcohol, you mean noble drink which promotes good fellowship and makes every meal a pleasure, then I am against it.”
― Leil Lowndes, How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“We forget: In life, it doesn’t matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you’ve been given.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living

“As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away—that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project—you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“One of the major differences between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“All the excuses in the world won't change one simple fact: that fear is a sign to do whatever it is you fear—and do it quickly.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“it's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Remember, the moment you accept total responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you claim the power to change anything in your life.”
― Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
― Peter Drucker

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter Drucker

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
― Peter Drucker

“But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance