Best 10 quotes of Penelope Trunk on MyQuotes

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert, you think while you're talking. And it's impossible to listen to someone if you are thinking of the next thing you want to say.

Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.

Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.

Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.

Reading a book is making space for a new idea in your heart, and it might be merely a page or a paragraph or a turn of a phrase. Reading is letting sparks flight where they might catch, there is danger and recklessness, and god I love reading so much, even though I rarely read a book.