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“If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your compa...”
“You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.”
“A bull market is very much like being in love. You don’t realise its value till it’s gone.”
“To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be.”
“Unwittingly, I have sailed through my entire life, so far, with neither direction nor destination.I had a vague instinct to reach dry land every once in a while for supplies, but never anything mor...”
“The reward for living my life in this manner? An existence like that of a seagull picking up scraps from the back of a fishing boat. Surviving day to day. Nothing left for tomorrow and no idea what...”
“Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I strolled aimlessly through the years? Was I expecting my whole life to be some form of lucky acc...”
“I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.”
“You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.”
“Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it i...”
“I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.”
“The vast majority of the populace would never think of setting themselves any deadlines for the achievement of their dreams. They may have a vague notion they will get older and that one day they w...”
“Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?”
“Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any w...”
“Most people haven’t set themselves any course with regards to their life. They have no idea whether or not they are being blown in any useful direction whatsoever. They are just at the whim of wher...”
“I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.”
“How do I go about cataloguing my dreams?”
“Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.”
“If you have designed your last day on earth, if you have decided how you wish to be thought of on your deathbed, only then can you start to plot a course to that point, to your ideal final destinat...”
“It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.”
