The real risk is doing nothing.

— Dennis Waitley

Creative people need time to sit around and do nothing.

— Austin Kleon

The newest technical papers and the oldest books are the best sources of arbitrage. They contain the least popular facts and the most monetizable truths.

— Balaji Srinivasan

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.

— Stephen R. Covey

There’s a way to do it better. Find it.

— Thomas A. Edison

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

— George Steiner

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.

— David Bowie

If you think I'm one of the people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong.

— Daphne du Maurier

The end result of all ambition is to be happy at home.

— Samuel Johnson

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

— Walter Bagehot

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.

— Stephen R. Covey

Some years you win, some years you build character.

— Steve Jobs

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

— Viktor Frankl

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

— John Waters

A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline of its people.

— Lee Kuan Yew

I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.

— Michael Jordan

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end, you make it look like a quantum leap.

— James Dyson

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

— Paul Erdős

The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion.

— Sam Altman

This is your world. Shape it, or someone else will.

— Gary Lew

Nature does not rush, yet everything is accomplished.

— Lao Tzu

Whatever is happening to you has been waiting to happen to you since the beginning of time.

— Marcus Aurelius

A sedentary life is the real sin. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.

— Alan Watts

I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.

— C. S. Lewis

Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise.

— Frank Ocean

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so called trauma but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

— Alfred Adler

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

— C. S. Lewis

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

Comparison is the death of joy.

— Mark Twain