Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.
Arguably, in business books, I don’t think there’s much that has never been said before.
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Greatness is won, not awarded.
If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
There was no “decision” per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.
Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
It’s a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
Looking back on my own career, I’ve come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.
Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.
One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.
Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: “I need money to buy tools.” You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!