Seth Godin, marketing writer and philosopher:
“Prototyping is valuable, and you can prototype almost anything today and make it look real. Once you’ve prototyped your idea, you don’t have to persuade people to like it - they can judge it themselves.”
Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines:
“We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.”
Edward Abbey:
“Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am—a reluctant enthusiast. . .a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is [...]
Harold Gotoff, University of Cincinnati Professor of Classics:
“If it doesn’t help – abandon it. If it doesn’t amuze you, instruct you, edify you – if it doesn’t make your life better, it’s not worth spending time on or remembering… DO SOMETHING ELSE!”
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple. during a Stanford Graduate Commencement address on June 12, [...]
Tom Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool:
“The greatest minds build. It is essential that you avoid at all costs situations where you’re inclined to criticize someone or something without the intent of seeing it grow more vibrant, truer, and more useful—else you will lose, not it.”
Seth Godin:
“…It’s essentially impossible to become successful or well off doing a job that is described and measured by someone else.
“The only chance our country (your country, depends where you live), your economy and most of all, your family has to get ahead is this: make up new rules.
“People who make up new rules continue [...]
Hugh MacLeod:
“As Buddha says, there is no one road to Nirvana. Enlightenment is a house with 6 billion doors. While we’re alive, we intend not to find THE DOOR, not A DOOR, but to find OUR OWN, UNIQUE DOOR.
“And we’re willing to pay for the privelege. We’re willing to give up money and time and [...]
Charlie Munger, vice-president of Berkshire Hathaway and business partner of Warren Buffett:
“What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ‘em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in [...]
Comment posted by Alex at Mises.org:
“Most Austrians have come from more mainstream economic backgrounds. They have found that empirical research into economics is faulty, as it needs to be interpreted by theory. Numbers don’t tell you anything – and numbers themselves are not physical objects! They themselves are merely ‘ideas’, or, put another way, ideas [...]
Paul Graham, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and essayist:
“The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper.
If you want to make money at some point, remember this, [...]