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“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“And what being an adult means is knowing what you have to do and doing it, even though you may not feel like doing it.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

“The most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself. When”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

“when we consider the purchase of anything, to ask ourselves, both as producers and consumers: Is this purchase necessary? Do I really need a new outfit to do yoga? Can I do well enough with something I already have? And will it do more than one thing?”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

“Buy less; buy better. Make fewer styles; design better.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

“Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

“Patagonia’s image is a human voice. It expresses the joy of people who love the world, who are passionate about their beliefs, and who want to influence the future. It is not processed; it won’t compromise its humanity. This means that it will offend, and it will inspire.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

“A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.

[Report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, May 9-10 1966]”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“So a good teacher at the right time in your life can make a frog into a prince!”
― Rashmi Bansal, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish

“helping move the country away from a “Made in China” past to a “Bought in China” present.”
― Duncan Clark, Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

“We put constant pressure on ourselves to always be our best and then feel exhausted when we fail to live up to this unrealistic standard. And when we depend on our bosses for validation, the smallest bit of critical feedback starts to feel like a rejection of our entire selves.”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work and How They Help Us Succeed

“The most content people craft their ups and downs into redemption stories: something bad happened, but something good resulted”
― Liz Fosslien, No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work and How They Help Us Succeed