Notes on Being a Man Quotes

“The ultimate goal for any male is to create what the author of Of Boys and Men, Richard Reeves (my Yoda on this subject), calls surplus value. This phrase shows up a lot in these pages. It means you give more than you get. For men, this means providing more love to others than was given to you—becoming a better son, brother, friend, or employer to people. Your job, if you become a father, is to create surplus value as measured by being a better dad than your dad was to you.”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“The ratio of time you spend sweating to watching others sweat is a forward-looking indicator of your success. Show me a guy who watches ESPN every night, spends all day Sunday watching football, and doesn’t work out, and I’ll show you a future of rage, menacing silences, and failed relationships. Show me someone who sweats every day and spends as much time playing sports as watching them on TV, and I’ll show you a young man who is good at life.”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“There’s no such thing as balance, only trade-offs. You can have it all, just not at the same time.”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“Kindness and asking for help are two unheralded weapons for men. They’re big components of being male”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“People born and raised in middle- or upper-income homes take so much for granted in terms of their inborn skills”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“America is about watering as many plants as possible, not attempting to determine which seeds will become redwoods.”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“When you die”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“we see—and are continuing to create—a generation of young men from all backgrounds who are (a) unbearably lonely”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“GET THE EASY STUFF RIGHT”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“developing a callus. The more nos they get, the more they can calibrate what works and what doesn’t. The key, the skill, the talent, the mastery, the ninja artisanship no one teaches, is that the greatest, most specific skill a young man can develop is his willingness to endure rejection.”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man

“this: Let’s identify a super class of freakishly remarkable”
― Scott Galloway, Notes on Being a Man