23 Of My Favorite Quotes

IYKYK Quote Edition

I’ve had this newsletter going for 3+ years now, and though it’s mostly focused on hyper-niche quality products, I get the most people personally reaching out to me about the quotes I add at the bottom of each newsletter.

So I thought it’d be helpful to compile a list of my favorites, if not for you, for me to reference.

Enjoy, space cowboys.

“If you can’t be happy with a coffee, you won’t be happy with a yacht.” - Naval Ravikant

“Everyone's looking for an angle. The best one is 0 degrees — just be straightforward.” - Jason Fried

“If you ran into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.” - Tim Ferriss

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.” - Winston Churchill

“Have more than you show, speak less than you know.” — William Shakespeare

“The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding.” - Chris Williamson

“The big money isn’t in the buying and selling, it’s in the waiting.” - Charlie Munger

“You get what you repeat.” - James Clear

“If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.” - Naval Ravikant

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” - Viktor Frankl

“Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.” - Someone

“Intensity is the strategy. Winners don’t have a better strategy, it’s that they do the obvious things with more intensity.” - Shaan Puri

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” - Herbert Simon

“Being an asshole is a weak person’s idea of strength.” - Mark Manson

“Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.” - Seneca

Holy shit, Seneca

“Hurt people hurt people.” - Someone

“You don’t want respect, you want self-respect.” - Naval Ravikant

“Don’t try to be someone, rather find the thing that is so engaging that it makes you forget yourself.” - Boyd Varty

“Don’t worry about people liking you. Most people don’t even like themselves.” - Someone

“Show me your friend group and I'll show you your future.” - Chris Williamson

“The cynics get to be right and the optimists get to be rich.” - Shaan Puri

“There is no silver bullet that's going to fix that. No, we are going to have to use a lot of lead bullets.” - Ben Horowitz

“Just because something is difficult to attain doesn’t mean it’s valuable.” - Joe Rogan