Quotes

"Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time." ~ Patrick Bet-David

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again." ~ Steve Jobs

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it... he who doesn't... pays it." ~ Albert Einstein

"You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass." ~ Warren Buffett

"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" ~ The Programmers' Credo (No idea who came up with this)

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing." ~ Pelé

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." ~ Jim Rohn

"Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose (The more things change, the more they stay the same)." ~ Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

"85% of your financial success is due to your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Shockingly, only 15% is due to technical knowledge." ~ Dale Carnegie (with potential paraphrasing and/or incorrect attribution)

"The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts." ~ Marcus Aurelius

"Honesty is a very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people." ~ Warren Buffett

"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest." ~ Winston Churchill

"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." ~ Lao Tzu

"Look in the mirror; that's your competition" ~ [Multiple sources; Origin Unknown]

"A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him." ~ Confucius

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." ~ Brian Kernighan

Excerpts

"In an autonomy-supportive environment, the leader acts as a guide, a person who is on the journey with the individual. The leader pokes, prods, nudges, and maybe even pushes individuals in certain directions, but the leader understands that they are there to help others reach their potential. That while they can direct and guide, it ultimately is up to the individual to take ownership of their actions." ~ Steve Magness (from Do Hard Things )