Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it’s new, because it’s human and because it seeks to connect.
If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn’t okay now. Change, by definition, changes things.
If you think cat food is for cats, how come it doesn’t come in mouse flavor?
Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.
Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you’re getting close to doing something important.
Ideas aren’t a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!
The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.
Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.
The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
Competent people are the most resistant to change.
Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message.
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
If you’re a marketer who doesn’t know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you’re no longer a marketer. You’re deadwood.