Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Everyone faces adversity. "

Related Quotes:

" Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth. "

" I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to doing the sales and marketing. So when I see someone doing it wrong and giving bad advice, I do my best to help - even when they're not my clients. "

" If you run a business that isn't cutting edge or doesn't naturally stick out of the crowd, it's your job to be different and get attention. "

" Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I'd eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It's the American Dream inside the American Dream. "

" Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it. "

" Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process. "

" The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with so much potential - and worse, encouraged many more to crash and burn. "

" No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own. "

" You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. "

" Life is hard, but we make it much harder. "

" If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything. "

" Every job carries occupational hazards. "

" Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them. "

" People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world. "

" Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second. "

" The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial. "

" My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school. "

" My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. "

" One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself. "

" The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things. "

" I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people's reading habits. "

" If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? "

" As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle. "

" When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power. "

" In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I'd been scouted for the job because of a blog I'd started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company. "

" Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them. "

" Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well. "

" Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart. "

" You can't believe your own marketing. "

" We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day. "