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There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

The only person that is going to tell you that you can't do things in life are people who have failed.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.

Work's a way of life. It's the way you live; it's what you do, and it's how it is. It's not work. It's a lifestyle. It's life. It's what one does. You can't not work.

There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.