If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you’re worthy.
Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.
Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.
If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won’t need to spend it on advertising.
No niche is too small if it’s yours.
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don’t have a prize for yet.
You don’t have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.
Skepticism doesn’t help you hear.
Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it’s easy, it’s already been done and it’s no longer valuable.
Whining isn’t a scalable solution.
Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
The future of marketing is leadership.
Market-driven design builds the success of the product’s marketing into the product itself.
It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.
Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.
Every single important thing we do is something we didn’t use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.