Quotes by Oliver Emberton

“If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.”
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“You can do anything, if you stop trying to do everything.”
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“Success is your happiness measured by others, satisfaction is your happiness measured by you.”
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“Conforming to other people’s anger is caving to the most stupid part of their nature.”
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“We surrender much of our life to the most vapid crap imaginable, simply because someone else asks us to.”
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“If your reasons are complicated, they’re almost certainly excuses.”
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“If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives.”
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“Hard work does not make you successful. If that were true, our soldiers would drive Bentleys and our teachers would take their lunch breaks in gold-plated Jacuzzis.”
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“Ideas are cheap, fleeting things; by itself an idea is worth less than a half-eaten sandwich. At least you can eat the sandwich.”
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“If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.”
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“Ignore. It’s rude, unprofessional and often utterly necessary. There are people you won’t find time to reply to. There are requests you will allow yourself to forget. The world won’t fall apart. The payoff is you get done what matters.”
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“The most accomplished people are simply experts at what they choose to do, not how they do it.”
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“DO NOT FOR A SECOND believe it is enough to ‘work hard’. Hard work is not inherently a good thing. Hard work is a disgusting waste of your life when it’s thrown at the wrong things.”
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“Writing a novel is a lot like losing your virginity. You’re naked, you’re hoping to press the right buttons, but there’s an excellent chance your audience will simply laugh and walk away.”
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“Most people spend their money to get the most utility – fun, food, whatever. Entrepreneurs spend their money to make the most money.”
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“Our brains are so clever they often outsmart themselves.”
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“What unsung compliment could someone give you now, that would make your mind explode with delight? How much would you appreciate the person who said it? Now do that to someone else.”
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“Like parenting, the only people who think leadership is easy are the people who haven’t tried it.”
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“Asking a question is like carving a tiny hole in your mind. Without thinking about it, slowly, your brain will work to fill the hole.”
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“Are you young, poor, unqualified – a student, or hating your job? Maybe a touch rebellious? Perfect. You have no bad habits, and will work until your fingernails fall out and your eyeballs roll onto the desk. The world awaits you.”
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“Nearly all of the damage that is done by rejection is done by ourselves, to ourselves.”
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“Be careful you don’t become so good at lying that you forget to improve the truth.”
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“One of the most dastardly lies ever told is that “winners never quit”. Total bunk and claptrap. Winners quit the right things. If anything, they quit more often.”
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“The solution to making better choices is to impair our freedom.”
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“The worst time to think of ideas is when you’re trying to think of ideas.”
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“The quality of your communication is one of the strongest indicators people will use when judging you; it can make a smart kid sound stupid, or an idiot sound vaguely intelligent.”
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“The surest sign of a doomed wannabe entrepreneur is that they have a ‘great idea’.”
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“The problem with looking at the successful for inspiration is what they do now isn’t what got them there. You’re liable to copy the wrong things.”
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“The truth of something has little to do with it being accepted as fact. Most universally held ‘truths’ have an altogether different standard: people find them palatable.”
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“Don’t sweat the bad ideas. Everyone has bad ideas. We’re only ever remembered for our good ones.”
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“The biggest difference between success and failure is total time invested.”
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“You are in competition with every other distraction on the Internet. Your beautifully written sonnet must joust for attention against Miley Cyrus with a kitten.”
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“Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there’s another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.”
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“There’s always tomorrow, until there’s not.”
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