Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there’s always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.
Don’t ask people to do something you wouldn’t.
Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.
If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.
Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress.
Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.
The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news.
Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.
Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.
The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.
The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless – most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn’t even graduate from college.
Jolt is for Windows programmers. It’s typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It’s WYSIWYP.
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.
If you’re in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.
When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.
I have four kids in a private school who have not yet entered college. Their tuition is what keeps me motivated. Life is simple sometimes.
And this is the beginning of the end.
My theory is that when you’re young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.
Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you’ve gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors.
You need to earn the right to promote.