Where Ideas Come From
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea came out of work.”
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea came out of work.”
“There’s too much downside in sharing any opinion that could easily be misinterpreted online. Even facts are dangerous to share if they don’t align with what pe...
“Knock, knock. Get the door. It’s religion!”
I didn’t need a coffee table book. But there I was in The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles about to buy one — and I couldn’t figure out why.
“Give your identity a very small footprint. The fewer things you define yourself by, the fewer constraints you have on further growth.”
“The best networkers are givers. What the system does is force you to be a giver, and to do so in an extremely consistent way.”
“The Facebook algorithm immediately thinks that because my mom liked it, it must be a family related piece of content — even if it’s obviously about theoretical...
“We’re not a distracted generation, but we are distracted when we’re using a web browser.”
“A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.”
“Combine ideas from your product with an idea from your general knowledge. Combining those two existing ideas results in creativity — a brand new idea.”