Jordan Peterson on Work Quotes

"You have to negotiate with yourself like you’re negotiating with someone that you care about."

"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."

"Don't underestimate the power of vision and direction."

"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life."

"The creative person is always the one that disrupts the structure."

"The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it."

"Aim at something. Discipline yourself. Or suffer the consequences of chaos."

"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."

"Pick up the heaviest thing you can and carry it."

"The alternative to valuing things is to find everything meaningless."

"If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master."

"Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens."

"If you can’t order your own house, you can’t order the world."

"Competence is the best protector against tyranny."

"If you don't choose your sacrifice, your sacrifice will be chosen for you."

"Confront the chaos of potential and transform it into habitable order."

"Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't."

"Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world."

"Don't be a slave to stupid rules."

"It is necessary to aim at the highest good that you can conceive of."

"You need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering."

"Dress like the person you want to be."

"Make a schedule and stick to it. It’s not a prison, it’s a plan for a good day."

"Writing is thinking. If you can't write, you can't think."

"Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)."

"Opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated."

"If you don't say what you think, you kill your unborn self."

"The hierarchy of competence is not a hierarchy of power."

"There is no difference between responsibility and meaning."

"It is better to do something badly than to do nothing."

"Ask yourself what you would require to be willing to undertake the job that you have to do."

"Be precise in your speech."

"Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that."