Quotes

Start With No, Page 201

If you know the price and manage your time and energy and money and stay within budget and serve your mission and purpose, you’re okay regardless of what the boss does.

Lost and Founder, Page 201

…so few people are willing to be transparent about real numbers or honest that a big part of the motivation for founding a startup is in the hopes of an extraordinary payday.

Toxic Positivity, Page 201

…validation is not the same thing as an endorsement. It simply means that you can see how something is possible and recognize it…

Slow Productivity, Page 201

…betting on yourself in this manner – with nontrivial stakes for failure but attractive rewards for success – is a good general strategy for pushing the quality of your work to a new level.

Winners Never Cheat, Page 201

Fear is bondage… We can unwittingly incarcerate ourselves with worry, negativity, and obsessive behavior.

Slow Productivity, Page 201

Simply by placing yourself in a situation where there exists pressure to succeed, even if moderate, can provide an important accelerant in your quest for quality.

Atomic Habits, Page 201

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is that start of a new habit.

Tiny Habits, Page 201

…willpower alone is hard, and hard is often impossible to sustain.

Atomic Habits, Page 201

The problem is not slipping up; the problem is thinking that if you can’t do something perfectly, then you shouldn’t do it all.

How to Talk with Anyone about Anything, Page 201

Not knowing is a powerful tool for connection because it opens you up to the people around you…