Will Chou > Will's Quotes

“If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong. If you feel like getting up in the morning to work on your business is a chore, then it's time to try something else.”
― Richard Branson

“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
― Steve Jobs

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
― Steve Jobs

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
― Steve Jobs

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”
― Steve Jobs

“I'm fresh out of fucks to give.”
― Tucker Max

“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle…

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

“Nothing—absolutely nothing—in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you’re on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as a bigger challenge than making the most of yourself.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself

“It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing Oneself

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
― Mark Twain

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”
― Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”
― Napoleon Hill, Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success

“There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
― Napoleon Hill, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Comparison is the death of joy.”
― Mark Twain

“Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, however... that guy was onto something.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

“Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress people that they don't like!"

Nothing to do w/ "books" -- Just like the quote!”
― Will Smith

“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
― Dave Ramsey, The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.”
― Sam Walton

“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.”
― Sam Walton

“High expectations are the key to everything.”
― Sam Walton

“Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s think about it.’ We make a decision. Then we act on it.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who’s going to have a great idea.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“For my whole career in retail, I have stuck by one guiding principle. It’s a simple one, and I have repeated it over and over and over in this book until I’m sure you’re sick to death of it. But I’m going to say it again anyway: the secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want.”
― Sam Walton

“The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign: “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” They’re still up there, and they have made all the difference.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America