Kickstarter isn’t a profit center, it’s an organizer and an instigator.
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
You succeed because you’ve chosen to be confident. It’s not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you’re able to become confident.
Real content marketing isn’t repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission.
Marketing management is now tribal leadership.
The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about.
The key to success is to find a way to stand out – to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
What people are afraid of isn’t failure. It’s blame. Criticism.
Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it.
Most people don’t see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That’s the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.
Following instructions is overrated.
The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it’s easier than ever to inform yourself.
Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.