Skepticism doesn’t help you hear.
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.
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.