“Be generous and don’t worry about keeping score. My grandfather didn’t have a lot of money but he was amazingly generous.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“You learn a lot more from mistakes than you do from successes. I tell my kids, ‘It’s almost certain that you are going to make mistakes along the way. Try to make small ones, if you can, and think of them as opportunities to learn.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“I have always been very competitive and driven, in sports or whatever. I think that’s a quality you either have or you don’t.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“No one likes to feel vulnerable, and I’m no exception, but the reality is that you can only know as much depth, happiness, and success in your life as you can know vulnerability. If you don’t ask out a girl or a guy on a date, you won’t get rejected, but you won’t fall in love either.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“A key element to my success has been my ability to attract the best people in the world to work with me— and then keep them motivated.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“Success unshared is failure. If you’ve ‘made it’ and don’t help others out along the way— if you don’t do something to make the planet a better place— you’re not successful at all; you are a failure. But”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“You don’t always know what you want to do in life, but you sure know when something isn’t right. My advice is that once you realize you don’t want to pursue something get out. The sooner you exit a situation that’s not meant to be, the sooner you can move toward your ultimate destiny.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“The thing with being fired is that no one tells you they’re about to do it— you just get fired one day.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“As long as you can admit things to yourself, you can deal with them and then move on. I don’t lie to myself, but I don’t harp on things and I never, ever look back. If your mind starts to wander to past events, the only advice I can give you is don’t go. Just stop it! Think about something else.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“The most defeatist thing I hear is ‘I’m going to give it a couple of years.’ You can’t set a clock for yourself. You should want it so badly that you don’t have a choice. You have to commit for the long haul.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“You have only one mind and one body for the rest of your life. If you aren’t taking care of them when you’re sixteen or seventeen, it’s like leaving that car out in hailstorms and letting rust eat away at it.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“When you are generous, you will always feel good about yourself. If life ends up being generous in return, as it usually does with giving people, then you will have greater joy.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“An important quality in my field is emotional stability. You have to be able to think independently.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“You’ll be jealous of everyone who’s more successful than you. That’s okay. Just transfer that jealousy into something productive, like working really hard so you can one day eclipse them and make them feel jealous of YOU.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“I had this revelation in my adult life that no one knows what they’re doing, and [success is] basically about who can pretend the best.”— Grace Helbig, ew.com
“Quite honestly I think it is way more terrifying to be boring than to be a failure.”— Grace Helbig, huffingtonpost.com
“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to exp…”— Bessie Anderson Stanley, amazon.com