Ari Gold Quotes

#1. Don't waste time worrying about work/life balance, or looking for your best self, sham "secrets" or any other snake oil being pushed by sloppy hippies who have never built a business, let alone a bankroll, or you will wake up 20 years from now poor, pissed off and primed for a midlife crisis.

Ari Gold

#2. Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Richard Rogers

#3. Loving your work doesn't mean finding a job you can tolerate for eight hours a day, but rather a job that gets you flying out of bed in the morning like a Jack Russell who just had a firecracker stuffed up his ass.

Ari Gold

#4. Happiness is a booty call: available and satisfying, but after a few hours, you're ready to call an Uber and get back to your real commitments.

Ari Gold

#5. Life is not about learning from your failures; it's about learning so you don't fail. In

Ari Gold

#6. Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#7. She read it over, decided it was too complicated for Memo, and ran it through an app called MyTxt4Dummies.

Ken MacLeod

#8. Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out?

Nothing.

Ari Gold

#9. You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#10. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

Ari Gold

#11. Retirement isn't a goal; it's a sentence.

Ari Gold

#12. I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Simone De Beauvoir

#13. Fight, fight, fight and get that money, money, money. 'Cause happiness can't buy even a nickel.

Ari Gold

#14. I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

Edward Norton

#15. Unless you're in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn't have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.

Ari Gold

#16. When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

Barry White

#17. Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. Then it occurred to me: You either waited for someone else to do the right thing, or you stood up and did it yourself.

Eileen Cook