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With the exception of industry experts who have built very similar businesses, opinions are worthless. You want facts and commitments, not compliments.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms.... See more
Anna Quindlen • 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech
Janice Min embraces more with less
"It's not about how big you can get, but the discipline of how small you can stay."
"It's not about how big you can get, but the discipline of how small you can stay."
Janice Min embraces more with less
Very rarely does a person accumulate wealth without acquiring social skills.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
Rule of thumb: Opinions are worthless.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
If you don’t know what you’re trying to learn, you shouldn’t bother having the conversation.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at before). “Greatness is overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a form of extremism, and it comes with extreme vices that I have no interest in. Steve Jobs was a jerk. Bob Dylan is a jerk.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
Perhaps you will attain your goal, and a worthy goal at that, but at what price? Apply this standard to everything, including whether to collaborate with other people or come to their aid. In the end, life is short, opportunities are few, and you have only so much energy to draw on.
Robert Greene • The 48 Laws of Power
I think this is the best career advice I’ve found on the internet (yes, buried in a ’90s-looking blog)
Scott Adams’ argument: Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things. Don’t try to become the best at one specific thing.
He writes:
“If you want an... See more
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