The Shaved Soapbox

Quotes

"Success is a consequence and should never be a goal"

"Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"

“Remember, Time is a greedy player who wins without cheating, every round!”

"Grind It, there is no trying, there is only doing or not doing"

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your reason and your own common sense."

"Opportunity only dances with those already on the dance floor."

"To really succeed, you have to fail first."

"There isn't much thrill in success unless one has first been close to failure"

“How hard can it be?” are the five most dangerous words in my lexicon. They’re tasty, too. I’ve eaten them many, many times.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"

"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened ... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on"

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist"

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

"If you think it’s expensive hiring a professional, try hiring an amateur"

"A good plan violently executed is better than a perfect plan executed next week"

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want"

"When the water STARTS boiling it is FOOLISH to turn off the heat ...."

"I get paid to hurt people, to make them suffer on my wheel. How cool is that?" - Jens Voigt

"Don't worry too much about getting things done. Make things happen."

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”

"Self discipline is the glue that keeps excellence together"

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

"Amateurs are always pleased with their work. Professionals never are"