Tim Denning Quotes

If you’re high agency type of person who loves high performance, the only thing you can do is entrepreneurship or you’ll lose your mind. Everything else just feels like a joke. It’s the only path that lets you exploit your talents, act like a psychopath, and run things how you want without being told what to do. The more you try to continue being an employee the more depressed you become. You just know. You’ve always known. You have this fire in your eyes no one can put out and every minute you avoid it feels like death. Some of us are born to solve problems and change the world in some small way. And we must take risks to feel alive. Only entrepreneurship can give you that. There are downsides though such as uncertainty, more stress, and inconsistent income. But life is too f*cking short to work a boring job. Stop avoiding the one path that’ll make you come alive.

Adopt the mindset that you can literally do anything you want in life and you will.

If you want the good life, you have to be dangerous. Not taking risks is the default programming in society. If you do the same, you’re guaranteed to miss the wisdom that comes from failure, rejection, and embarrassing yourself.

You don’t need more information. You need more courage.

Getting rejected every day is one of the best habits you can adopt.

The audacity to be delusionally optimistic when it seems insane to do so is what will seperate you from those who get what they want and those who don’t.

Nobody warns you about the dangers of being mediocre and the terrible rewards that come with it.

Only when you have a midlife crisis will you stop giving a f*ck about what everyone thinks.

The greatest lie you were ever taught to believe in was retirement.

Whatever you do in life, do not lose your sense of urgency.

A lot of rage goes away when you figure out how to make more money.

Consistency without iteration is just ego in disguise.

Kill the voice that tells you the competition is better than you. The competition sucks and they won’t be there in a year.

Nobody talks about how peaceful life feels when you don’t have back-to-back meetings to attend.

I think a lot of modern anxiety comes from not following your dream and settling for second best out of fear.