“The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you.” Marc Andreessen · Interviews
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” Bill Gates · Widely attributed
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” Elon Musk · Interviews
“The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting.” Charlie Munger · Berkshire Hathaway meetings
“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us.” Phil Knight · Shoe Dog, 2016
“Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.” Mark Cuban · Interviews
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” Thomas Edison · Widely attributed
“Almost always, the people who say 'I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I'm going to figure them out,' and mean it, go on to succeed.” Sam Altman · Essay: How to Be Successful, 2019
“I would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.” Oprah Winfrey
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” Dale Carnegie
“I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. p. 54” Napoleon Hill