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 :
- Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
- The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
- Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
- Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final.
- Good is the enemy of great
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.
- Inaction is the biggest failure
- No matter how small you start, always dream big.
- Wisdom is hard to get but hardest to lose if once obtained.
- Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.
- Great losses are great lessons.
- You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
- Realize that your life situation will never line up perfectly for you to start a business.
- You’ll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.
- Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
- It’s not what you got, but what you gave.
- Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.
- What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.