“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”— Robert H. Schuller, amazon.com
“Work is finding yourself alone at the track when the weather kept everyone else indoors. Work is pushing through the pain and crappy first drafts and prototypes. It is ignoring whatever plaudits others are getting, and more importantly, ignoring whatever plaudits you may be getting. Because there is…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“Every error, of whatever kind, is a consequence of degeneration of instinct, disgregation of will: one has thereby virtually defined the bad. Everything good is instinct – and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“You get to make your own luck. 80% of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up, not those who wait to be asked.”— Steve Blank, steveblank.com
“Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire.”— Larry Lucchino, youtube.com
“Communism had succeeded in wresting entire generations away from the work ethic, in killing in them the slightest desire to produce, in making them lazy. This historical scandal is coming to an end. The whole of Europe is going to work in concert. But the question still remains: shouldn't we have pr…”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“Talented people do not need atmosphere to work. They do not need inspiration. They just need time and payment. They need to treat what they do like a job. They need to show up.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com