Ramit Sethi Quotes

#1. My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.

Peter Tosh

#2. These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.

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#3. When you are listening to someone you respect, treat their whispers like screams

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#4. I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

Autre Ne Veut

#5. Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset.

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#6. Charging a premium amount allows me to offer a premium service.

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#7. If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

Evelyn Waugh

#8. I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

Robert Lopez

#9. The 85 Percent Solution: Getting started is more important than becoming an expert.

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#10. I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.

Eden Sher

#11. Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on - and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don't love.

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#12. Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

Khalil Gibran

#13. Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.

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#14. We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

Luke Rhinehart

#15. How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?

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#16. If I don't have at least 4 or 5 failures a month, I feel like I'm not trying hard enough

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#17. Consistency is necessary, but its not sufficient to make it to a level that breaks you out in front of everyone else.

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#18. I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

Natalie Imbruglia

#19. The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.

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#20. Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.

William Shakespeare

#21. In a world of infinite choice if something is not made specifically for me I'm gone.

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#22. Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading.

Nathanael Emmons

#23. All our lives, we've been taught to defer to experts: teachers, doctors, and investment "professionals." But ultimately, expertise is about results. You can have the fanciest degrees from the fanciest schools, but if you can't perform what you were hired to do, your expertise is meaningless. In

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#24. If something isn't working, don't try harder or do more. Do something DIFFERENT.

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#25. Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction.

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#26. And to think I survived this deadly workload, only to be murdered by the sight of my parents' bare asses, a tragedy that gives a whole new meaning to the word assassination.

Megan McCafferty

#27. Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate and get started?

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#28. Most busy people want to mentor someone great

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#29. There is a limit to how much you can cut but there is no limit to how much you can earn.

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