Rush Quotes

“The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.”
― Todd Buchholz, Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race

“Edenists will disdain busy working people. They will portray them as heartless robots of a soulless capitalist system. They don’t understand that most of those purported robots are driven both by their rational and emotional brains. They do not represent pure reason or pure greed. Most of those who succeed in moving toward their personal and business goals have integrated their drives for forward motion and hope.”
― Todd G. Buchholz, Rush: Why We Thrive in the Rat Race

“Self-control is tightly linked with imagining the future. If you can’t imagine the future, there’s no reason to exhibit any discipline or self-control.”
― Todd G. Buchholz, Rush: Why We Thrive in the Rat Race

“We prefer to earn more than our colleagues at work not because we are nasty and want to be envied, but because that is a signal that we have earned our keep. If everyone were paid the same, if everyone lived in the same house, our minds would receive no signal that we are expending our energy in a prudent or productive way. The dollars, the baubles, and the bangles we gain from work spark an aboriginal sentiment that excites the vital juices that keep our hearts beating and the oxygen flowing to our brains.”
― Todd G. Buchholz, Rush: Why We Thrive in the Rat Race

“Take this quiz. Would you rather earn $100,000 in an office where everyone gets paid $100,000, or $80,000 in an office where everyone earns $60,000? Most people choose the latter, preferring an advantage over their peers.”
― Todd G. Buchholz, Rush: Why We Thrive in the Rat Race