Building a Business

Inspiration and advice for building and scaling a business

Prepare as if this is your only opportunity, and perform as if nothing can go wrong.

Effort is a choice. If it's important to you, there is no excuse for someone putting in more effort than you.

Success is endurance in disguise. It belongs to the person who can absorb the losses without absorbing the identity of "loser." It's the courage to start — and to stick with it — that is the real separator. Results tend to find the person who stays in the game.

The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there.

Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.

"Speed creates opportunity. Patience compounds it.

Moving fast will generate more chances. But if you quickly jump from thing to thing, growth will stall.

Get moving and find what works, then do it for decades."

"Trust follows consistency.

The business that delivers a quality product every time earns the customer's trust.

The person in the relationship who shows up reliably — who keeps promises, who responds with steadiness — earns the trust of the other.

The pattern is the proof."

“If you have really high ambitions, you achieve great things even if you fail. If you have low ambitions, you achieve nothing even if you succeed."

"To simplify before you understand the details is ignorance.

To simplify after you understand the details is genius."

Focus means choosing what doesn't matter.

What you refuse to do determines what you can do.