Quotes

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." ~ Abraham Lincoln

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong." ~ Warren Buffett

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them." ~ Brian Eno

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" ~ John Wooden

"[...] I often tell my clients, especially young people. They say, 'well, I don't know what to do.' It's like, that's okay, nobody does. Go do something. Do the best thing that you can think of. Put the best plan you have into practice. It's not going to be perfect, and it will change along the way, but it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path, and as you become disciplined you become wiser, and as you become wiser you become able to formulate better and better plans." ~ Jordan Peterson

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." ~ Dale Carnegie

"Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time." ~ Patrick Bet-David

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." ~ Steve Jobs

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it... he who doesn't... pays it." ~ Albert Einstein

"You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass." ~ Warren Buffett

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" ~ The Programmers' Credo (No idea who came up with this)

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing." ~ Pelé

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." ~ Jim Rohn

"Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose (The more things change, the more they stay the same)." ~ Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

"85% of your financial success is due to your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Shockingly, only 15% is due to technical knowledge." ~ Dale Carnegie (with potential paraphrasing and/or incorrect attribution)

"The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts." ~ Marcus Aurelius

"Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people." ~ Warren Buffett

"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest." ~ Winston Churchill

"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." ~ Lao Tzu

"Look in the mirror; that's your competition" ~ [Multiple sources; Origin Unknown]

"A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him." ~ Confucius

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." ~ Brian Kernighan

"To be fair, if you know how to code and you 'have a clue what to code' and aren't living on a beach somewhere making millions in interest per month, you either don't know what to code, or don't know how to code." ~ Me

Excerpts

"In an autonomy-supportive environment, the leader acts as a guide, a person who is on the journey with the individual. The leader pokes, prods, nudges, and maybe even pushes individuals in certain directions, but the leader understands that they are there to help others reach their potential. That while they can direct and guide, it ultimately is up to the individual to take ownership of their actions." ~ Steve Magness (from Do Hard Things )