A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
I travel all the time.
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or...
You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done be...
Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.
Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.
If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.
Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C
• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge...
Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur...
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
The next time you think that there's something that you can't live without, wait for a week and then see if you're still alive or not
Atribución: Conocéis bien el material. Trabajáis realmente duro. Os estáis esforzando mucho. Seguid así. Persuasión: Debéis hacerlo bien. Debéis hacerlo mejor. Refuerzo: Yo (el profesor) estoy orgullo...
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.
Inertia. Guy’s law of enchantment: People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.
Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave. —Constantine Brancusi
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. MARK TWAIN
Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh ai...
While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.