Jessa Crispin Quotes

“We have to imagine something before we can build the infrastructure that will allow it to exist. We have failed here on both fronts: in imagination and in reality. Our great weirdos, from Emily Dickinson to Simone Weil to Coco Chanel, are seen as outliers, as not relevant to the way we think through what we want out of life. It's the same way we discuss radical feminist writers like Dworkin and Firestone. Dworkin is unhinged, Firestone is too eccentric to be taken seriously.”

“A destructive thought process exists within all of us, and we are plagued to varying degrees by an internal dialogue that is harmful, restrictive, and at its ultimate extreme, self-destructive.”

“You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all.”

“The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.”

“Success is the sum of details.”

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”

“If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.”

“You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.”

“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.”

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”