“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
“I’m a big believer in creating your own opportunity if no one gives you one.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“Use the words ‘we’ and ‘us’ when referring to your business. Never use ‘I’ and ‘me.’ It sounds egotistical.”— 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
“We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”— Brené Brown, 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
“You never climb a mountain to get to the middle; you climb it to get to the top.”— Gillian Zoe Segal, amazon.com
“A guy who knows what he wants and how to get it usually can apply the same tactics with women. A man with no ambition whatsoever, a man who doesn’t really know what he wants will never really know what you want either.”— Angela, youqueen.com
“It doesn’t matter if you’re not currently where you want to be in your life. What matters is that you’re actively trying to achieve your goals rather than getting defeated.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is!”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Stop chasing the things you think are the norm for 20-somethings and start achieving the dreams that are actually meaningful to you.”— Ran Zilca, greatist.com
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”— Shauna Niequist, amazon.com
“Couples should talk about how often they want to have sex and then try to meet whatever goal they agree on. Communication is key.”— Dr. Ruth Westheimer, twitter.com