A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur – or APE.
Not many people agree with what I do.
I’m a lousy predictor of the future.
I travel all the time.
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It’s a skill that you learn.
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
I don’t want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
I’ve always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.
Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.
Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.
High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.
Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can’t show you how to make a leap.
I want to know which idea you’re going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.
The real question is who will innovate.
Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you’ll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.
The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
It’s just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.