Business Advice

To get rich, do work where you get paid in proportion to the number of customers you satisfy instead of the number of hours you work. Not all work of this kind will make you rich, but nearly all of the work that can make you rich is of this kind.

—Paul Graham

“Fall in love with problems rather than solutions.”

-from ‘Non-Obvious Thinking’ by Rohit Barghava and Ben DuPont

You don’t want to be in the selling business. You want to be in the reorder business

- John Paul DeJoria

Build the thing you wish existed.

—Source unknown

Most times, the best way to create value is to double down on the domain-specific insights you’ve collected over your entire career.

—Nikita Bier

“‘Not your best ever’

In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal.

Each thing is not going to top everything that came before it. Progress is rarely smooth.”

-Seth Godin

"You are paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of the problems you solve."

~ Elon Musk

My remix: “The amount of money you make is in direct proportion to the size of the problem you solve.”