Best Quotes from The Algebra Of Happiness by Scott Galloway with Page Numbers

Talent is key, but it will only gain you entrance to a crowded VIP room.

The chaser that takes talent over the top into success is hunger.

Understanding where hunger comes from can illuminate the difference between success and fulfillment.

The secret is to find something you’re good at.

The emotional and economic rewards that come from being great at something will make you passionate about whatever that something is.

Most people can’t wrap their heads around the notion of working without getting paid.

Serendipity is a function of courage.

Your job is to find something you’re good at, and after ten thousand hours of practice, get great at it.

It shocks me how many people are the adults in the room until they get around their parents and regress into whiny children.

Professional success is the means, not the end.

Love and relationships are the ends—everything else is just the means.

To love someone completely is the ultimate accomplishment.

Our role, our job as agents of the species, is to love someone unconditionally.

The key decision you’ll make in life is who you have kids with.

Building a life with someone who loves you, and who you love, near guarantees a life of reward interrupted by moments of pure joy.

Like someone who likes you.

To love someone unconditionally is the secret sauce cementing the survival of Homo sapiens.

Decide if the relationship as a whole gives you joy and comfort.

Keeping score creates a dynamic where you never give in to the real joy in life.

At the end, I believe parents want two things: To know their family loves them immensely. To recognize that their love and parenting gave their children the skills and confidence to add value and live rewarding lives.

We are hunter-gatherers and are happiest when in motion and surrounded by others.

It’s not about being ripped, but committing to being strong physically and mentally.

As you get older and begin to register the finite time you have, you want to freeze time and have moments when you feel something.

Most depression isn’t feeling sad, but feeling nothing.

Nobody ever says at a funeral, 'He was too generous, too kind, and much too loving.'

Being engaged and organized is key to brain health, and you feel you have a purpose.

Loving is the bomb when it comes to living.

Gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish life’s experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships.

There’s a value to waving your middle finger at the x factor, getting lost in pork, and missing a few.

We are wired to love them no matter what, and we present this love with less variance than any other relationship.

In the end, relationships are all that matters.

I noticed they had nicer things than we did: a big house overlooking the Valley, German cars, fur coats, and fancy guns from Italy.

Charly was ahead of his time.

As in many marriages, financial strain spelled doom.

He was loved.

Karsen would help her with things I couldn’t—showering, changing.

I got too wrapped up in my own shit to call the woman who had showered my mom when she was dying.

Just like referred pain, this was love for my mom manifesting somewhere else.

I feel the need to invest in relationships in case they are all I’m left with.

In the end, that is all we have, and all that matters.