The Bottom of the Pool Quotes

“Be careful about what you think you know. Because you can't always believe everything you think.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

“Because how you think determines who you are, it also determines who you are becoming and who you ultimately become.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

“The degree to which you will ever be financially compensated is inexorably linked to the obvious greater value (OGV) that you create for someone else.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

“If it is true that your choices determine your destiny, and if the truth is that your thinking determines your choices, then it is, in fact, your thinking that determines your destiny.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

“Misusing our imagination grants power to fear. Know that fear and its many demon relatives do not--and cannot--exist without a human host.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

“THE WORDS: The degree to which you will ever be financially compensated is inexorably linked to the greater value you create for someone else. THE MEANING: According to the dictionary, the word valuable means “extremely useful or important; worth a great deal of money.” Therefore, in order to create value for other people, you must do, provide, or become something that is extremely useful or important. Because that is worth money. Creating greater value is worth more money . . . correct? It certainly should be.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

“How you think is massively influenced and largely determined by what you read, hear, and watch.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

“Bottom of the pool: if you want folks to choose you—each and every time—then the greater value you have created had better be obvious.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

“On the top deck, it is easy to believe what one sees is the same throughout the ship. But if one of the officers has slipped below and drilled a hole in the hull, smooth sailing is only an illusion.”
― Andy Andrews, The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results