There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. -Sam Walton

---

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. ― Epictetus

---

I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours? —Leah Busque

---

Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.   ― Elon Musk

---

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. ― Epictetus

---

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them. ― Epictetus

---

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems ― Epictetus

---

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

---

All my life, I’d shied away from human company, never sharing my thoughts with a soul. How pointless this seemed now, and how absurd!

---

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them. - Gore Vidal

---