diff --git a/.profile b/.profile
index acadf7e..f77611b 100644
--- a/.profile
+++ b/.profile
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox
 
 SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"
 function start_agent {
-     echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."
      /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
-     echo "succeeded"
      chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
      . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
 }