If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.
If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.

Similar Alain de Botton quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
- Great companies are built on great products.
- We believe that it’s technology married with the humanities that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.
- If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
- When you cease to dream you cease to live.
- Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
- Wrong partners cost much more money than bad financial investments.
- Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
- Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.
- Focusing is about saying no. And you’ve got to say no, no, no. When you say no, you piss off people.
- Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.
- A real influencer buys the mind to act not the heart to express.
- If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
- Sorry Houston, but failure is an option.
- For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
- Without business skills, your passion or hobby will not translate into money in your pocket.
- When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.
- A leader without a team is a bow without arrows
- Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.
- The way to be nothing is to do nothing