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.
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Similar Alain de Botton quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.
- It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
- Don’t die without fulfilling your purpose.
- Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.
- See the big picture and details of everything in your life (zoom out, then zoom in).
- Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
- Success repeats itself until it becomes boring.
- The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
- Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
- Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
- Without breaking the rules sometimes, you won’t achieve anything.
- Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.
- Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
- Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
- (It is not good to) weigh too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
- If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.
- Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about
