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 :
- When you do it, you are not another dreamer
- When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
- I’m not gonna die before i serve my purpose
- Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.
- Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
- The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
- Without vision, there is no victory.
- Without struggle, success has no value.
- I never fail. It’s just that the people around me succeed more than I.
- Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
- Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose!
- Slow, Steady and Strong
- If you are going through a lot, you are going to get a lot.
- People are least interested in your plans and strategies, they are interested in results.
- If you really want to achieve it. Have a deadline on it. If not, you will never complete it.
- Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about
- You will have more regrets for the things you didn’t try than the ones you tried and didn’t succeed at.
- If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
- I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- Hungry people always win.