Tony Hsieh Quotes

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But figuratively speaking, I'm really into growth, so when I look in the mirror, I see somebody who's just trying to get better everyday.

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

Half my life is an act of revision.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

You do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.