Life Lessons from Some Great Quotes
On Truth:
rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.
On Being Adaptable:
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but rather those who cannot learn,unlearn and then relearn.
On being an Entrepreneur:
“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.”
On Taking risks:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
On New ideas:
The great thing about a learned mind is that they are capable of entertaining an idea without first accepting it.
On Competing
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”
On Training yourself:
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ ~Muhammad Ali
On experience Vs intelligence:
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
On trusting you instincts:
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” ~Steve Jobs
On Inspiring others:
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.Read more at
On Excellence/Quality:
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
On Focus:
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
On the gift of Life::
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing — Theodore Roosevelt
On setting goals:
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
On believing in yourself:
“You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.”
On Doing Business:
- Only two things matter: what you are selling and how you are selling. if you fail either you selling something nobody wants or you arent marketing it enough.
- The secret of business is knowing something that knowbody else knows. ~old quote
- If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- word hard and market.
- Companies succeed when they have the right talent, resources and perseverance.
Secrets of Success:
“you can succeed by working harder than other, knowing more than others and expecting less from others”.
On Excellence:
Become so good that they cannot ignore you.
On Dreaming:
“Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?”
poor is man, who has no dreams.
On Climbing the ladder:
“You’re born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you’re up in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.”
“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.”
On Innovation:
- The best way to predict future is to invent it!
- “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.”
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
- We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?
On Being of Value:
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value”
On Creativity:
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
On failing
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ~Micheal Jordon
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.
On persistence:
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that ! ~Rocky
“Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn’t quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out.”
On living in the moment:
When you surrender and accept the beautiful stillness around you, when you give up all thoughts of the past, all worries and anxieties of the future, when you surround yourself with similar positive people, when you tame the mind, when you keep healthy, there is zero chance of burnout.
On challenging the status quo:
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” ~ Muhammad Ali.
“Here’s To The Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world — are the ones who DO !”
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
On really living:
‘Every man dies. Not every man really lives.’ ~ William Wallace
“Remembering that you are going to die,
is the best way I know to avoid the
trap of thinking that you have
something to lose.”
~ Steve Jobs
On being Mad:
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.