Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.

— Paul Arden

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

— Paul Arden

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

— Paul Arden

Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in hand is the opportunity.

— Paul Arden

Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want. Not the decisions those around you think you should make. Making the safe decision is full, predictable and leads nowhere new. The unsafe decision causes you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of. And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want. Start taking bad decisions, and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

— Paul Arden

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life? People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future). Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.

— Paul Arden

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese

— Paul Arden

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

— Paul Arden

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

— Paul Arden

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

— Paul Arden