Quote

Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China.

Steve Pavlina

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steve Pavlina
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 14
Author
Businessperson
Engineer
Programmer
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Relationships
Foster
China
Friendships
Except
Loyal
Wall
Walls
Business
Puts
Good
Treat
Like
Treats
Potential
Formality

More quotes by Steve Pavlina

Image
If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.
Steve Pavlina
Image
If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.
Steve Pavlina
Image
If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
Steve Pavlina
Image
When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it
Steve Pavlina
Image
Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself.
Steve Pavlina
Image
If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.
Steve Pavlina
Image
The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.
Steve Pavlina
Image
I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin.
Steve Pavlina
Image
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
Steve Pavlina
Image
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
Steve Pavlina
Image
It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
Steve Pavlina
Image
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Replace Have to with Want to.
Steve Pavlina
Image
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
Steve Pavlina
Image
The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.
Steve Pavlina