Theodore Roosevelt’s famous dictum, “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
A networker likes to meet people. I don’t. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.
Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.
First mover advantage doesn’t go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up.
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that’s really powerful.
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.