Side Hustle & Flow Quotes

“A person who is more successful than you has failed more times than you, taken more risks than you, and learned more valuable lessons than you.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“…life becomes more livable from having work/life balance; but the balance comes from not knowing where one stops and starts—to inject fun into both work and play, create space and time for both and have an equal balance of time spent doing what you love.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“Whether you work for someone else or your are self-employed, you always end up working for yourself. If you go to work for someone else, though, you will not have enough intrinsic motivation to perform at your optimal performance level. You must get into the mindset that you work for yourself, even if you are paid by someone else.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“There is no right or wrong way to use time if you are making a conscious decision on how best to use it. Every moment of every minute counts.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“A butterfly, through the process of breaking out of its cocoon, gains the wing strength to be able to emerge and fly. If you see butterfly struggling and decide to help do it for him, he will fall to the ground and eventually die. You were given a life, but no one said it was going to be easy.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“I know for a fact if you do nothing, you have failed 100 percent. Your dreams will never happen… Dying with a dream locked inside you, unrealized, is probably one of the saddest things that can happen in life.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“Change is constant, and change is inevitable. And those who do not learn to adapt and press forward will get left behind.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“Our founding fathers said we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness… If you are not happy, the only one who can change that is you… If you live under the assumption that’s someone or something will make you happy, or you delay your happiness saying, ‘Someday I’ll be happy,’ wishing, thinking, hoping, and praying won’t make it so. Pursuing makes it so”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“Perfect is an ideal or standard that no one can live up to; so, we must learn to live with imperfection and move into acceptance. You are human. You will make mistakes, and bad things will happen that are out of your control. But a person is not measured by how many times they fall. They are measured by the fact that they got back up.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“If you know exactly what you love to do, why aren’t you doing that as much as possible?”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“Think about the impact of what you do. Not everyone is going to become Mother Teresa or Albert Schweitzer. In business you could become an Andrew Carnegie or in the arts a Bono; there are many ways to help people and change the world. Pretty much every product and service made by a business excels when helping to solve a felt need.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“Belief in yourself can certainly be difficult and painful, and the process is not effortless. You will constantly battle fear, doubt, negative feedback, and hundreds of other forces. Like gravity, these forces have the ability to continually pull you down. It takes effort to get out of bed, get dressed, and battle all day on your nine-to-five, then be the weekend warrior for your dream.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“Your entire life can change in the blink of an eye. Storms can come in and rock you to the core. I started to doubt myself, but I eventually learned two unbelievably valuable lessons at that moment:
1. Never doubt yourself.
2. Never stop pursuing your dreams.
Setbacks are temporary and a natural occurrence on the road to success. So I figured I better get used to them.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time

“The type of belief in myself I had to have was met with a childlike naivety. At age twenty, I was too dumb to know that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of succeeding, but I believed in myself enough to try. I knew that if I didn’t act, there was a 100 percent chance I wouldn’t find success.”
― Cliff Beach, Side Hustle & Flow: 10 Principles to Live and Lead a More Productive Life in Less Time