PEOPLE’S VIEW

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” Lao Tzu

“It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” Marcus Aurelius

“You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you. You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be.” Richard Feynman

"All this hand wringing worry and concern over how are people viewing me — someone said something bad about me, and you get so upset about it — is wasted time and energy. Your only focus should be on getting better at what you're doing. Focus on what you are doing. Get better at what are you doing. Everything else is a waste of time." Jerry Seinfeld

“My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and ZI do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life much easier.” Anthony Hopkins

“My biggest accomplishment was getting over my own personal demons, my own personal issues. It wasn’t being a Navy Seal. Growing up as a kid I stuttered a lot, got bullied a lot, I got made fun of. I wanted to be accepted. So I told people what they wanted to hear. Just getting to the point in life where I don’t care what they say about me or think about me, that’s my biggest accomplishment.” David Goggins

“Don’t let fears of what others think of you stand in your way.” Ray Dalio

“If you wanna remain happy, stop caring about what other people think.” Richard Feynman

“There is also the great fear of being thought a fool. So many men are afraid of being considered fools. I grant that public opinion is a powerful police influence for those who need it. Perhaps it is true that the majority of men need the restraint of public opinion. Public opinion may keep a man better than he would otherwise be--if not better morally, at least better as far as his social desirability is concerned. But it is not a bad thing to be a fool for righteousness' sake. The best of it is that such fools usually live long enough to prove that they were not fools--or the work they have begun lives long enough to prove they were not foolish.” Henry Ford

“Don’t think too much about what other people think about you.” David Thomas, founder Wendy’s

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” John Wooden

“I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I’m going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody’s had their say.” Warren Buffett

“I can let such a conversation go in at one ear and out at the other without ever interfering with my own mental machinery.” Amadeo Peter Giannini –, Bank of America

“And so on to a long list of things that some unreflective people assume they’re assured of controlling to the last instance: your reputation, for example. Do what you will, it’s at least as fickle as your station in life. Others decide what your reputation is. Try to make it as good as possible, but again, don’t get hooked on it. In your heart, when you get out the key and open up that old rolltop desk where you really keep your stuff, don’t let ‘reputation’ get mixed up with what’s your moral purpose, what’s within the power of your will, in other words, what’s up to you. Make sure it’s in the bottom drawer, filed under ‘matters of indifference.’” James Stockdale

“I remember one time I got on the cover of Business Week as “The World’s Greatest Money Manager.” Everybody saw it and I was kind of impressed with it, too. Then three years later the same author wrote the most scathing lies. It’s a rough racket. But I think it’s a good thing in human narcissism to realize you go from highs and lows based on your views from the press – really, it shouldn’t matter.” Julian Robertson

‘I believe too many people get hung up on what others think about them or how they judge them. I don’t have that gene.” Kent Taylor, Texas Roadhouse

“The root of insecurity is craving the approval of others. It gives them the power to inflate or deflate our self-esteem. A stable sense of self-worth stems from putting identity above image: worrying less about what others think of us than what we think of ourselves.” Adam Grant

“Attitude conquers all. When fate bludgeons us and friends and fortune appear to desert us, keep one option always open, your attitude.” Barclay Simpson, Simpson Manufacturing