My bank does not accept likes.
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.
The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people’s priorities.
You can’t fake community, you can’t force it, either.
Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.
Never try to be a thought leader. There’s no value in that. Instead, try to add value.
Email is a system that delivers other people’s priorities to your attention. It’s up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It’s not the other way around.
An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.
While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we’ve got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.
Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you’ll get new ones.
To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn’t work first.
If you’re not on the right path, get off it.
Try to help people rather than focusing on what’s in it for me.
An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.
There’s no value to working hard on being really popular.
Owning your future is about having the discipline to execute your personal vision.
But networks can be very cold. So instead, commit to the mantle of being a servant to a community and serve them as often as possible. It will improve your business and your future and your life.
Business doesn’t just magically happen, at least not all the time. You’ve got to make it happen. You’ve got to learn to be a better salesperson. You’ve got to learn to be a marketer. You’ve got to understand finances. You have a lot that will go into owning it.
When you make it your business to find the people who are the same kind of freak as you, you’ll profit from serving that community in some form or fashion.