The Book of Pook Quotes: 30 Lines Men Still Pass On

Pook wrote in lines men remember. Many of them have travelled far from the original forum posts, often misquoted or attributed to someone else. Every quote below is checked against Pook's original writing, with the chapter it comes from, so you can find it in context.

Quotes on Yourself

1. "I realized I was the problem, not the women." — Introduction: A Pook Is A Pook!
2. "Women come and go, but YOU are forever." — Lesson Ten
3. "In order to be successful in the world, you must be successful in your mind." — Lesson Ten
4. "There is no method except yourself." — Aphorisms
5. "Imitation is suicide." — The Secret of the Jerk
6. "It all comes down to this choice: live your dreams or live other people's dreams." — Aphorisms
7. "Show me an unsuccessful person in life and I will show you a person who thinks they are 'perfect'." — Aphorisms
8. "You cannot fulfill your desire by letting it trump your integrity." — Lesson Ten

The first line is where the whole book starts. Pook spent years blaming women for his results before he saw the pattern had one common factor: him. That is bad news and good news at once. If you are the problem, you are also the solution.

Quotes on Attraction and Desperation

9. "The surest way to make a woman unhappy is to give her everything she wants." — Aphorisms
10. "A Don Juan is a state of mind, not a list of methods and tricks." — Kill That Desperation!
11. "Women are not attracted to desperate men. Period." — Kill That Desperation!
12. "The KEY to killing desperation (and attracting crowds of women) is to THINK and BELIEVE that you are The Great Catch." — Kill That Desperation!
13. "Be the good fruit! Be the PRIZE to be won!" — Lesson Six
14. "For a friend she sees, a friend you shall always be." — Lesson Two
15. "Judge by her actions and not by her words." — Lesson Three
16. "Be a man and respect attends to itself." — Lesson Seven
17. "Women are not attracted to genius, only strength and imagination." — Lesson Nine
18. "How do I judge a woman's character? I see how she treats people who can do nothing for her. This test has never failed me." — Aphorisms
19. "Drop the 'getting a girl is success' mantra and you will never be DUMPED." — Lesson Eleven
20. "Either go for MANY or go for NONE." — Lesson Fourteen

Kill That Desperation! is one of the best-known chapters in the book, and you can read it free here. Its argument is simple: the man who treats a woman as the prize tells her he is worth less. The cure is not a trick. It is how you think about yourself.

Quotes on Action

21. "Rejection is always better than Regret. Always." — Lesson One
22. "You must approach. Always default to Action now." — Lesson One
23. "Mediocrities avoid risk the way alcoholics avoid a cure." — Aphorisms
24. "Consistency is the most important thing to success... in anything." — Aphorisms
25. "Opportunities are brilliantly disguised as impossible situations!" — Lesson Fifteen
26. "If you still are making mistakes, keep making them, and at some point all those mistakes will morph into 'experience'." — Aphorisms

Pook distrusted men who collected theory and never acted. The first of his Fifteen Lessons is about exactly that: a young man who hesitates and loses his chance.

Quotes on Life and Success

27. "The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is this: the former INVESTS his time while the latter SPENDS his time." — Aphorisms
28. "Manners for men: direction of masculine strength, not the denial of it." — Aphorisms
29. "There is nothing more depressing than living your life to someone else's vision. You have a soul for a reason." — Volume 2
30. "Invest time in yourself rather than investing time in girls." — Volume 3, The Questioner

The later quotes come from Pook's Mill, the blog he wrote after his forum years. That writing is collected in Volumes 2 and 3 of the official edition and is missing from the free forum PDF most men have seen.

Where These Quotes Come From

Most of these lines are from Volume 1: the Fifteen Lessons, Kill That Desperation!, The Secret of the Jerk and the chapter of Aphorisms. The rest come from Pook's later writing in Volumes 2 and 3.

Quotes travel well, but they lose their context. Many of Pook's best lines land because of the parable or argument that leads up to them. If a line here hits home, read the chapter around it:

• Read Volume 1 chapters free
• Read the Book of Pook summary
• See the official PDF and EPUB edition, compiled and edited by Pook Media from Pook's original writing

FAQ

What is the most famous Book of Pook quote?

Probably "Women come and go, but YOU are forever" and "I realized I was the problem, not the women." Together they sum up the book: stop building your life around women and build it around yourself.

Who said "Women come and go, but YOU are forever"?

Pook, in Lesson Ten of the Fifteen Lessons in Volume 1 of The Book of Pook.

Did Pook say "Rejection is better than regret"?

Yes. In Lesson One he writes: "Rejection is always better than Regret. Always."