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Success and Influence

Lessons about achievement, accomplishment, success, impact, influence, and legacy.

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If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Timing is often the biggest component of success.

— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Once one is able to provide for basic physical needs (food, shelter, and so on), the correlation between happiness and worldly success quickly approaches zero.

— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Legacy is not leaving something for people. It’s leaving something in people.

— Peter Strople

If you’re always chasing for something in the future, your life’s journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to “make it”. You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside.

— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now