Sethi Quotes & Sayings

Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly on - and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you don't love. — Ramit Sethi

Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset. — Ramit Sethi

We look for happiness in every other thing and being around us. We live in an "if and then" model of happiness. If that happens, then I will be happy. This list of "if and then" never finishes, and we continue through our entire life learning how to be unhappy. — Rakesh Sethi

Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? - Najumi Sethi — @SaroorIjaz

The 85 Percent Solution: Getting started is more important than becoming an expert. — Ramit Sethi

Ethiopia is the center of origin and diversity for the majority of coffee we drink. The commodification of coffee pushes farmers to grow as much as possible by whatever means possible. This has contributed to deforestation. The place where coffee was born - the area with the greatest biodiversity of coffee anywhere in the world - could disappear. No forest, no coffee. No coffee, no forest. What we lose isn't specific to Ethiopia; it impacts us all. — Preeti Simran Sethi

I don't know how you've managed a tan," Daydra said, "but you'll have to keep it up, and talk like a pirate. If you want to work for Momma K, you're going to be the Sethi pirate girl. You have a husband or a lover?" Kaldrosa hesitated.
"Husband," she admitted. "The last beating nearly killed him."
"If you do this, you'll never get him back. A man can forgive a woman who leaves whoring for him, but he'll never forgive one who goes whoring for him."
"It's worth it," Kaldrosa said. "To save his life, it's worth it. — Brent Weeks

All our lives, we've been taught to defer to experts: teachers, doctors, and investment "professionals." But ultimately, expertise is about results. You can have the fanciest degrees from the fanciest schools, but if you can't perform what you were hired to do, your expertise is meaningless. In — Ramit Sethi

If something isn't working, don't try harder or do more. Do something DIFFERENT. — Ramit Sethi

If I don't have at least 4 or 5 failures a month, I feel like I'm not trying hard enough — Ramit Sethi

With my love I home
I paid for lust
Digresses like some,
Only, if she understood,
Her curse was my unfulfilled thirst. — Shreya Sethi

How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option? — Ramit Sethi

In a world of infinite choice if something is not made specifically for me I'm gone. — Ramit Sethi

These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings. — Ramit Sethi

When you are listening to someone you respect, treat their whispers like screams — Ramit Sethi

Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction. — Ramit Sethi

Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate and get started? — Ramit Sethi

Consistency is necessary, but its not sufficient to make it to a level that breaks you out in front of everyone else. — Ramit Sethi

No matter where you live, you have the memory of something you used to eat that is no longer a part of your diet - something your grandmother used to make, something a small shop used to carry. Something we have lost. This extinction is a process; it happens one meal at a time. — Preeti Simran Sethi

Charging a premium amount allows me to offer a premium service. — Ramit Sethi

When the news of the creature broke, it was possible that the victims had attributed to the Monkeyman injuries that they had unknowingly inflicted on themselves in their sleep.

'It could be mass hysteria caused by mass media,' he concluded.

Dr. Desai's report lay on my desk for many days: a snap-shot of a city splintering under the strain of a fundamental urban reconfiguration- a city of the exhausted, distressed, and restless, struggling with the uncertainties of eviction and unemployment; a city of twenty million histrionic personas resiliently absorbing the day's glancing blows only to return home and tenderly claw themselves to sleep. — Aman Sethi

Most busy people want to mentor someone great — Ramit Sethi

Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes. — Ramit Sethi

The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room. — Ramit Sethi

There is a limit to how much you can cut but there is no limit to how much you can earn. — Ramit Sethi

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared. — Preeti Simran Sethi