The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
SETH GODINDon’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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