Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

E-mail blasts are the best training for being clear.

Present each new idea or improvement to the world. If multiple people are saying, “Wow! Yes! I need this! I’d be happy to pay you to do this!” then you should probably do it. But if the response is

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws. This is your utopia.

“We’ll do anything for a pizza.”

We all grade ourselves by different measures: ▸ For some people, it’s as simple as how much money they make. When their net worth is going up, they know they’re doing well. ▸ For others, it’s how much money they give. ▸ For some, it’s how many people’s lives they can influence for the better. ▸ For others, it’s how deeply they can influence just a

How do you grade yourself? It’s important to know in advance, to make sure you’re staying focused on what’s honestly important to you, instead of doing what others think you should.

Learn to shrug. Resist the urge to punish everyone for one person’s mistake.

No “yes.” Either “Hell yeah!” or “no.”

no matter what business you’re in, it’s good to prepare for what would happen if business doubled.