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What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.
A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.
Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.
Everyone is passionate about something. It's your job to find out what it is.
Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.
When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.
The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.
Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!
If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.
If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.
Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.
Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.
There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
I would consider...Google Plus a push technology. It's closer to Twitter than to Facebook.
Customers can tell you how to evolve a product, but they can't show you how to make a leap.
The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
I don't "need" the rush to be happy. I'd be perfectly happy without the attention and action.
One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.
Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.
If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.
'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.
You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.
Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.
Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.
High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.
I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?
You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.
Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping
Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.
You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.