While I liked many of these quotes and was impressed with the variety of topics and themes, I did feel like they began to be repetitive within categories. I had heard almost all of them before, so I would have liked to have seen something new.

I love a good quote but this was a disappointment to me. I knew over half of the quotes here and they are straight out of the 1950's, even the modern ones. There is so much of the mentality that life is what you make of it and you can do anything as long as you quit bitching and work harder. Ugh. One of the quotes Siegel starts with is one by Martha Washington about how you'll be happy if you just decide to be, basically, and my first thought was wondering how true that was for the many people she and her husband enslaved. There's one by Bono that says capitalism pulls more people out of poverty than any aid. Most of the quotes are by American founding fathers, successful businessmen and writers. There are some by people of color, but only the most famous like Mandela, Ghandi and MLK (plus lots by Oprah), and nothing by modern, young, provocative thinkers. There is nothing about issues like grief, disability or despair. These are sound bites and posters to put up in the corporate break room. This is very much a book for upper middle class, educated, white men who want to feel inspired and motivated to work harder and succeed. It was a miss for me.

I read a digital ARC of this book for review.