Business Advice
You don’t want to be in the selling business. You want to be in the reorder business
- John Paul DeJoria
Best practices are rarely the best — they're mostly just cargo cult common practices.
And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.
The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.
And as more people adopt them, the more mediocre they become.
The best is usually what most people aren't willing to do.
Jason Fried • Tweet
“‘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
Nobody can read your mind. Share your ideas. Tell people what you’re working on. Communicate your vision, even if it’s only half baked. Stir the pot.
"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.”
File this under “people I don’t like but who have said things that feel useful.”
The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out
Solve a problem you have yourself, then sell the solution.
~Dan Koe
Source: https://youtu.be/GmHQGVD7KRQ?si=S27LWzhIApJ8iEzW
Making work easier. This is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies.