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 :
- Build systems and methods that incubate ideas, facilitate cooperation and spark growth.
- Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
- Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart.
- Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.
- Seek advice on taking risk from a capitalist and not from a gambler.
- Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
- Impatience makes even the strong weak.
- I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
- Strategy is about shaping the future.
- Living is different from just existing.
- The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.
- Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.
- Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.
- Stop writing caption. Go action!
- The sprint is like life. blink and you miss it.
- Without vision, there is no victory.
- If you can imagine it in details, it can be done.
- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
- Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.