Jordan Peterson on Work Quotes

"Be precise in your speech."

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

"You are not everything you could be, and you know it."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"You pay for everything you do and everything you don't do."

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

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

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

"Dress like the person you want to be."

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

"There is no difference between responsibility and meaning."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated."

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

"Competence is the best protector against tyranny."

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

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

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

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

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

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