“Mothers who live vicariously through the success of their children or husband need to find their own identity. While it is wonderful to see your children and husband become successful, what is even more effective is to lead and inspire through the example of your own successes. – Strong by Kailin Gow”

“Investors are people with more money than time.Employees are people with more time than money.Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money.Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.”“Company culture is what goes without saying.There are no real rules, only laws.Success forgives all sins.People who leak to you, leak about you.Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade.Greed and vanity are the twin engines of bourgeois society.Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.Lawsuits are merely expensive feints in a well-scripted conflict narrative between corporate entities.Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player—investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer—is complicit.”

“The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the ‘present.”

“You are your mind, so if you can see it, you can achieve it.”

“Lack of a formal education is a death sentence to some and an opportunity to explore for others”

“Dear haters, You’re never going to catch up. Because while you’re talking about how “lucky” I am, I’m working. While you’re talking about what you’re going to do, I’m already doing it. While you’re making resolutions, I’m setting behaviors.”

“The haters just don’t get it…They’re never going to catch up.Because while they’re talking about how “lucky” you are,you’re working.While they’re talking about what they’re going to do, you’re already doing it.While they’re making resolutions, you’re setting behaviors.”

“A champion is someone who has overcome a lot of fear.”

“Success reveals how little ambition is worth.”

“Success has nothing to do with morality.”

“Failure brings a climax in which one has the privilege of clearing his mind of fear and making a new start in another direction.”

“It is not natural for human beings to NOT grow to the next stage of life when they should.”

“…all flourishing is mutual.”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“There’s something inherently disappointing about success,’ from Topsy-Turvy, a Mike Leigh film about Gilbert and Sullivan.”