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 :
- Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
- Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
- Actually, I’m an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
- The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
- Do what you fear and fear disappears.
- No guts, no story.
- We need to embrace change in order to sell change.
- If you cant sell it to yourself, you cant sell it to someone else.
- Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- We trade real estate for technology (which gets cheaper and more capable every year).
- Successful people follow their passion, not money. Nonetheless, their success attracts money.
- I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- There are no spa hotels on the road to success.
- Entrepreneur, if you’re going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind
- In order to get what you want, you need to know what you want.
- Thinking big is a skill all entrepreneurs should be focused on cultivating.
- Entrepreneurs don´t play safe, they play good.
- Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.
- It’s called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don’t wait. Just ship.