Some people are troubled by their mediocrity. Some, by their greatness.
In business, the size of our success is partly attributable to the fear of failure that has prevented some people from being our competitors.
Some people are each way more hurt by their worst enemy’s success than they were hurt by their then best friend’s death.
Even a trillion dollars is made up of cents.
Our failures are way less likely than our successes to be ignored by our enemies.
Like growth, success is often a steppingstone from failure.
Our successes are seldom as sweet as our enemies’ failures.
After some point, working harder makes achieving the goal harder or even impossible.
Some of the people who we envy for having something we lack envy us for lacking something they have.
Being the first to start or leave does not necessarily mean that you will be the first to finish or arrive. Or that you will finish or arrive.
We sometimes congratulate someone, not because we value or find worthy what they have just achieved, but only because we fear coming across as jealous.
We spend a huge chunk of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually get the person and/or the things we need or want. Once we get them, we spend the rest of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually lose them.
There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.
When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.
When coming to sex: First served, first come.
When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.
12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.
Usually, a breakup is caused by, or causes, the revelation of one of the parties’ true colours.
Some people seem to see a conversation as a competition to see who can talk the longest and the most often.
Completely different impressions of someone can each be created by a selection of facts, or even a single fact, from the very same collection of facts about them.