To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Business is not about money. It’s about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
You’re free to do anything you want with your company. It’s more like art. You don’t have to follow any norms. It’s an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that’s your little place to make your own little utopia.
Don’t be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.
Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself.
Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.
The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn’t even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.
Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.
When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.
When you make a company, you make a utopia. It’s where you design your perfect world.
Learning. It’s really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.
You can’t please everyone, so proudly exclude people.
If I’m not saying ‘Hell Yeah!’ to something, then I say no.
Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.
The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you’ve saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.
Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you’ll do well.
If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.
Customer service is the new marketing.