Terry Gou Quotes

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'

I never feel like I've done anything. Swear to God. I'm not kidding. So it's always a surprise when somebody asks me to do anything.

I never feel proud of anything I do really.

My wife says to me, 'You have achieved a lot'... yeah, I do know. But... there are a couple of things I haven't.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

I don't think I have achieved anything that I can really be proud of.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

I didn't change the world.

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I can't complain about the support I've been given over the years, but I don't like it slipping away. Nobody says 'I'd like to be a bit less successful next year, please'. Nobody on the planet wants that, and I certainly don't.

When you don't win, you get called a failure.

I'm the opposite of the actor that is bursting with confidence who just knows they're going to make it. I'm the guy who's like yeah, probably, it won't happen.

I just don't want to fail, to be honest.

I'm just happy to know that no part of me thinks that I made it. Everything in me says you need to keep going, keep working.