Quick Quotes Weekly | The Never Happened Edition

Every day, I steal (I mean share… yeah! Share!) my favorite quotes from my weekly reading over at SmarterThanIAm.com. To spice things up, I plan to share my five favorites here each week, all year long! Be sure to click the links and read the full posts, these are smart people saying really smart things.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither. - Seth Godin

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

Seth Godin

Over the past 10 years, technological advances dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

Ben Horowitz <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff!

Get to know your “delete” key. It is in a three way tie for the best productivity tool ever with the Trash Can and the word “No”.

Patrick Rhone (From Keeping It Straight) <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff! (Affiliate Link)

Your problem is not distraction, your problem is care.

Merlin Mann

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain (From David Allen’s Getting Things Done) <— Click To Read More Smart Stuff! (Affiliate Link)

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http://www.DevelopSocially.com Justin Brackett

Great list man!

One of my favorites is “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison “
- http://michaelschechter.me MSchechter
  
  Great minds clearly think alike: http://michaelschechter.me/quick-quotes-weekly-the-amazing-people-edition/
http://twitter.com/TheSalesLion Marcus Sheridan

“Your problem is not distraction, it’s blog posts on Livefyre with @MSchechter:disqus “

Heard that one? It’s my all-time fav
- http://michaelschechter.me MSchechter
  
  You have no idea how sadly excited it makes my geeky self to be incorporated into a Mann quote
  
  I hadn’t quite heard that one. Felt like the Google Pac Man of Social Media this week. Feel like I killed a good amount of people’s productivity. Although amusingly enough, massively productive week for me.
  
  Finally seeing a 2 year in the making project go live next week!
http://freetraffictip.com Tinu

Loving the Mark Twain quote. It used to alarm me how many problems I was making up in my head when I first became conscious of it.

But then later I realized – it’s okay. Those are things I can just go ahead and stop thinking about!
- http://michaelschechter.me MSchechter
  
  Yeah, that’s a skill I still don’t possess. Tough to always get perspective on the nonsense that my mind likes to torment me with. May need to put that quote on a wall somewhere or on a baseball bat that I repeatedly hit myself upside the head with
  
  Stop thinking about stupid things… I should try that sometime…
http://spinsucks.com Gini Dietrich

Yep. Still all men. I’m keeping track, you know.
- http://michaelschechter.me MSchechter
  
  I’m embarrassed to admit it, of the 22 posts I have queued up, only 4 are women (one of them is kind of sketchy and sighs a lot). Do more than yell at me, tip me off to some savvy quotable ladies!