If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.
Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people’s hard work is rewarding and faster.
The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.
The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.
If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.
Your shower is ready – I turned it on last night.
Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.
Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.
If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.
The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.
The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.
There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.
There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don’t let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it’s not like I’m just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.
When you hire that first person, then you’re a boss. You’ve got performance reviews. You’ve got complaints about not making enough money. You’ve got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.
The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.
The job isn’t done until you’ve blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.
The Success Formula: Every Skill You Acquire Doubles Your Odds of Success.
Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.