If you want to be successful in business (in life, actually), you have to create more than you consume. Your goal should be to create value for everyone you interact with. Any business that doesn’t create value for those it touches, even if it appears successful on the surface, isn’t long for this world. It’s on the way out.

– Jeff Bezos

All the the returns come from being non-consensus and right – and every company has to shift from non-consensus to consensus to ultimately succeed.

– Delian Asparouhov

Tourist and purist – that’s my main device to understand the sections of culture, that move culture forward. You have a purist, that’s like, I know the whole art history of everything, you can’t do this, this was done 20-times before you thought of it. Like, this is the pure institution. Then there’s the tourist, who’s bright-eyed, curiosity-driven, that has a lust for learning, and they support whatever.

– Virgil Abloh

The North Pole, South Pole and Everest, it’s mostly mental. I’m not physically more fit than other people doing the same stuff or other people trying to do the same stuff and failing. It’s a mental thing and it’s definitely about preparation. You need to be well prepared.

– Erling Kagge, explorer

You were born into a world where most things were made by human consciousness. You may die in a world where nothing is made by human consciousness.

– Erik Hoel

A universal law of economics says the moment something becomes free and ubiquitous, its position in the economic equation suddenly inverts. When nighttime electrical lighting was new and scarce, it was the poor who burned common candles. Later, when electricity became easily accessible and practically free, our preference flipped and candles at dinner became a sign of luxury.

– Kevin Kelly

I failed pretty hard at my first startup – it sucked! – and am doing pretty well on my second. The thing I wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do, and that as long as don’t psych yourself out you can try again.

– Sam Altman

Underpinning my philosophy of life is the truth that you come into this life with nothing and leave with nothing. It is the period in between that belongs to you. Learning begins at birth and ends with death. And in the interim, the journey is what you make of it. Some may contend it is destiny that determines your path and that you merely flow with it. I disagree with that premise. I believe you steer your own course.

Drive your future. That opportunity knocks on every door. It is for you to heed that knock. What determines success? Luck at being there at the right time? Partially, maybe, but beyond that, it is the ability to visualize, create opportunity and overcome the hard yards that follow.

– Harsh Mariwala, Harsh Realities – The Making Of Marico

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

– Edgard Varèse