“Give up on the guesswork. Decide what you’re going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.”
― Rework
― Rework
“Instead of trying to use your technology and expertise to make a better product for your users’ standard behavior, experiment with inviting the users to change their behavior to make the product work dramatically better.”
― Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
― Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
“Paradoxically, then, network effects businesses must start with especially small markets. Facebook started with just Harvard students—Mark Zuckerberg’s first product was designed to get all his classmates signed up, not to attract all people of Earth. This is why successful network businesses rarely get started by MBA types: the initial markets are so small that they often don’t even appear to be business opportunities at”
― Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
“The entire time I was on TV was about 90 seconds. I had probably prepared 18 hours for those 90 seconds. Like most dates I had gone on in my 20s.”
― The Choose Yourself Stories
― The Choose Yourself Stories
“If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.”
― The Power of No: Because One Little Word Can Bring Health, Abundance, and Happiness
― The Power of No: Because One Little Word Can Bring Health, Abundance, and Happiness
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