Quotes by A.D. Aliwat

Being an investment banker is pretty much the perfect job for an all around triple-threat genius, and because I’m doing so well with it, I know I’m actually smarter than certifiable geniuses like Stephen Hawking and Einstein.

Alphas, like Scarface, can be drug dealers, but it’s still a little grimy.

Short guys with attitudes always just kind of made me laugh, like small, yippy dogs.

The kinds of jobs a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old can get are not worth doing. They pay shit and suck.

Worse than getting kicked out of your slot to go on to a winning season is to lead during a losing one. Nobody wants to be king of the losers.

There’s a reason why the Super Bowl is watched way more than the NBA Finals and World Series.

While yes, it’s good to have a fair amount of haters, it’s not good to have them on the street, where their anonymity can let them slip away without serious repercussions if they slight you, and this made me realize that fame, on its own, without fear, actually totally fucking sucks.

Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people: John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena.

If I seem better than you, you like me more. If you feel you have no chance with me, you like me more.

Not caring is absolute freedom, and if you own it, all the way, it emits supreme confidence.

“First an empress, then an empire.”

“When athletes go for the glory, they’re really going for God.”

“Enjoy these last moments, here, now, as much as you can.”

“There’s nothing like a plan that goes even better than expected. Revenge with extra credit.”

“Some habits just translate well to other undertakings. Some things are just in one’s nature.”

“Just because you get there first doesn’t mean you’re the best.”

“Losers read, winners skim.”

“To rise you must first fall.”

“Take the moment, it’s yours.”

“Change form, execute function.”