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"Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations."
"Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning."
"Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important."
"Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need."
"That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing."
"Dig your well before you're thirsty."
"If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about."
"What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever."
"Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!"
"The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all."
"Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over"
"Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful."
"I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since."
"When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself"
"The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up."
"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well."
"Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team."
"Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say."
"The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't)."
"Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes."