Millenial Quotes

“The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.”
― Jean M. Twenge, Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before

“Do not be obsessed with expensive things.
Instead, be obsessed with excellence.
Things don't make you excellent.
However, excellence will make you expensive.”
― Janna Cachola

“[Team player vs team builder]
Players focus on the wins and the loses.
Builders focus on the team and future of the vision.
Let's move our members from team player to team builder.”
― Janna Cachola

“Existential angst was far, far above her pay grade.”
― Emily Gould, Friendship

“bonuses don't really motivate workers. Once they reach a certain baseline salary, money is no longer the main driver. They need something more. Reams have been written about the Millennial generation's hunter for impact and meaning at work. In one way, I think Millennials (and Generation Z) are not so different from the rest of us. They just voice the desires the rest of us have learned to keep quiet.”
― Jacob Morgan, The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate

“I'd encourage [you] to think big and be delusional when setting goals. Yes, delusional. The biggest mistake that I made with my first business was I didn't think big enough. I limited my success by just focusing on a small geographic area and focusing on hitting small sales targets. Now when I set my goals, I make sure that they are ridiculous. I prefer to work extremely hard and fall short on my ridiculous goals than to achieve mediocre goals.”
― Warren Cassell Jr., Swim or Drown: Business and Life Lessons I've Learned from the Ocean

“Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.”
― Janna Cachola

“I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I can personally testify that roughly 90% of my adult life has been spent on Google trying to figure out how to do stuff.”
― Josh Gunderson, You're Doing It Wrong: A Mixtape Memoir

“Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath.”
― pfano percy rathogwa

“Es el signo de los tiempos que nos ha tocado vivir. Somos hijos de la tecnología. O quizás sus esclavos: no estoy muy segura.”
― María Del Carmen Seguí Torres, Solo el pasaporte

“It is always the friend with the most worrisome parents whose child has tried the strangest drug. In you twenties all you meet are dreamers and people who party like their Fridays are running out. Who love like their hearts are bleeding. If you fall, be prepared to maybe catch yourself. For everything is fast here; even love.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.