Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.
High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.
Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can’t show you how to make a leap.
I want to know which idea you’re going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
The real question is who will innovate.
Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you’ll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.
The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
It’s just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.
There are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what someone else eats, they cannot eat. Bakers do not believe that the world is a zero-sum game because they can bake more and bigger pies.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. MARK TWAIN.
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: “Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” – Halford E. Luccock.
If you think that leadership is deciding what you want and telling people to do it, I feel sorry for you. Reality is going kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you.
Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It’s not how great you start – it’s how great you end up.
Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave. – Constantine Brancusi.
Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves.
If you think that leadership is deciding what you want and telling people to do it, I feel sorry for you. Reality is going kick your ass so far that not even Google will find you. The goal of this chapter is to help you become such a great leader that you’ll appear on the first page of a Google search for “leader.
The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader,” and in a startup, that first follower is usually a cofounder.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. – Oscar Wilde.
The biggest daily challenge of social media is finding enough content to share. We call this “feeding the Content Monster.” There are two ways to do this: content creation and content curation.