“A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.”
― The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
― The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.
It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.
So I said, call me Trimtab.”
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It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.
So I said, call me Trimtab.”
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“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
― Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
― Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
-- Omar Khayyam
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Nor will I: ever write a word that fades in light, this I must be certain; else lay desolate at bight. <3”
― Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
-- Omar Khayyam
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Nor will I: ever write a word that fades in light, this I must be certain; else lay desolate at bight. <3”
― Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
“The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.”
― Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
People will follow.”
― Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Ask Adam Smith about his new book, "The Bravest You". http://bravestyou.com
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