Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you’ve made the world a better place.
How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.
Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.
The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer’s are good listeners, not good talkers.
My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I’m trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.
People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.
Some things need to be believed to be seen.
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.
Just do what’s right for the customer, and you’ll be okay.
Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.
The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.
For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.
The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.
For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I’m a writer.
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Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.
Sales fixes everything.
It’s hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.
Everyone is passionate about something. It’s your job to find out what it is.