Empty Achievements Quotes

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

People are earning their living as 'celebrities' without actually doing anything.

I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?

It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.