If you give me a one-month headstart on anybody, they’ll never catch me. And if they need their weekends and vacations, so they can get their beauty rest and recover and maintain their little punk-ass “work-life balance,” then they will always be looking at my taillights.
– from Will book by Will Smith
All of my business life, I …
All of my business life, I have believed that the success of my own business – or any business – depends on following the principles of two I’s and an H. These principles are integrity, ingenuity, and hard work.
– from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
How entirely undemanding of yourself it …
How entirely undemanding of yourself it was to believe that everything happened to you. And everything was about you. And that your feelings were the only ones that mattered. Worse yet, to afford yourself the role of the victim always – regardless of how grotesquely it required you to twist reality – so that you never had to look in the mirror and admit you were the perpetrator.
– from Atmosphere book by Taylor Jenkins Reid
You should never feel like the …
You should never feel like the world owes you anything. It doesn’t. There is no version of hustling harder or smarter that involves relying on the assumption that someone is going to do anything for you. You must accept that it’s all on you.
– from Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter book by Curtis Jackson
I don’t like New York. It’s …
I don’t like New York. It’s a city full of second-place winners.
– from City of Girls book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Love is from another realm. We …
Love is from another realm. We cannot manufacture it on demand. Nor can we subdue it when it appears. Love is not our choice to make.
– from Origin book by Dan Brown
Dear one, time will teach you …
Dear one, time will teach you what you refuse to learn from your well-wishers.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Whatever the art or whatever the …
Whatever the art or whatever the craft – and make a note of this before you go! – talent means next to nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
– from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
Hope is a great thing, when …
Hope is a great thing, when there is still a chance of everything being OK. But in cases that are quite literally hopeless it can do much more damage than good.
– from The Hunting Party book by Lucy Foley
New York was populated by the …
New York was populated by the ambitious. It was often the only thing that everyone here had in common.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara