The Slight Edge Quotes

“When I say millionaire I mean someone with a million-dollar smile, with a million friends, with a million dollars' worth--heck, a billion, a trillion dollars' worth-- of joy, love, contentment, fulfillment, great relationships, curiosity and fascination, passion and enthusiasm, excitement and accomplishment ... a fortune's worth of life in their life.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success - Guide to Success by Jeff Olson - Expert Narration, Exclusive LIVE! Opening, Transformative Wisdom, and Motivation

“There are several faces of the Slight Edge I want to point out to you because they each represent a power that, once you recognize it in your life, you can harness in the pursuit of your dreams. They are momentum; completion; habit; reflection; and celebration.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“Are there any situations in your life today where you’ve given up and decided to keep crawling rather than go for what you really want, what you truly deserve? Have you lost the ability to make up a goal, go for it and get it? Why don’t you do what you did when you were just a year old? The answer is both simple and sad: somewhere along the way, you lost faith. You became too grown-up to take baby steps, too sure you would never succeed to let yourself fail a few times first. You gave up on the universal truth that simple little disciplines, done again and again over time, would move the biggest mountains.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“Are you learning more about yourself, about the world around you, and about how life works every day? Are you learning new skills and sharpening old ones? Are you becoming a more capable person, one more interesting to know and valuable to be around? Or is your character being gradually etched with the age-lines of disappointment, disillusionment, boredom and bitterness?”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“People on the success curve don’t ignore the past, but they use it as a tool, one of many with which they build their futures.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“The good news is, you’re already exceptionally well oriented toward success. The bad news is, all those ninety-five others are going to be yanking on you, sitting on you, naysaying and doomsaying on you, and doing their level best to pull you back down. Why? Because if you succeed, it reinforces that they are not where they want to be.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“There are going to be all types of obstacles placed in front of you during your lifetime. And you can determine the size of a person by the size of the problem that keeps them down. Successful people look at a problem and see opportunity.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“And that, oddly enough, is the challenge of it. This is not about making tough choices. It’s about making easy choices consistently.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“The difference between success and failure is not dramatic. In fact, the difference between success and failure is so subtle, most people miss it. They hold the philosophy that what they do doesn’t really matter. It’s not hard to see how people come to this understanding of life. I don’t blame them. It’s completely understandable. It’s just not the truth.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“Excellent question. Because they’re all also easy not to do—and while anyone could do them, most won’t.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“Your philosophy is what you know, how you hold what you know, and how it affects what you do. You can look at anyone’s actions and trace back, through the attitudes behind those actions, to their source: the philosophy behind the attitudes. Show me what a man does, and I’ll show you what his philosophy is.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“There are two prevalent types of attitudes: entitled and value-driven. A value-driven attitude says, “What can I do to help you?” An entitled attitude says, “What have you done for me lately?” An entitled attitude says, “Pay me more, and then maybe I’ll work harder.” A value-driven attitude says, “I’ll work harder, and then I expect you’ll pay me more.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“Two boys. Two frogs. Two powerful choices. Riches or poverty. Life or death. You are making those same choices, every day, every hour, and the choices you make are spreading out through your life, just like the water hyacinth. You may not see the results today, or tomorrow, or even next year. In fact, by the time you do finally see the results, the process will probably be so far along that the surface of the pond will be completely covered. The question is, covered with what?”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“Everybody looked so tired. Failing is exhausting.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“I could lose it all tomorrow. (It’s happened before; I’d survive.) But there is something I cannot lose, and with that one thing I could start from scratch and build it all back up again. That one thing is the Slight Edge.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success

“The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“What happens if you add one small, simple, positive action to the success side? Nothing you can see. What happens if you add one more? Nothing you can see. What happens if you keep adding one more, and one more, and one more, and one more ... Before too long, you see the scales shift, ever so slightly. And then again. And eventually, that heavy “failure” side starts to lift, and lift, and lift ... and the scales start swinging your way. No matter how much negative weight from the past is on the other side, just by adding those little grams of success, one at a time (and by not adding more weight to the failure side), you will eventually and inevitably begin to shift the scales in your favor.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success