How do you and I usually deal with an impossible deadline handed down from someone above us? We complain. We get angry. We question. How could they? What’s the point? Who do they think I am? We look f...
Director of growth at StumbleUpon, put it best: growth hacking is more of a mindset than a tool kit.
You will be unappreciated. You will be sabotaged. You will experience surprising failures. Your expectations will not be met. You will lose. You will fail. How do you carry on then? How do you take pr...
You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it.
When setbacks come, we respond by working twice as hard.
What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated—tranquility, fearlessness, and freedom. We should not trust the masses who say only the free can...
We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.52
We decide whether we’ll assent or reject. No one can force us to give up or to believe something that is untrue
Ultimately, nerve is a matter of defiance and control.
This is why we shouldn’t listen too closely to what other people say (or to what the voice in our head says, either). We’ll find ourselves erring on the side of accomplishing nothing.
The market was inherently unpredictable and often vicious—
The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to get...
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged chance, conquered the chance, and made chance the servitor. —E. H. CHAPIN
Strength is the ability to maintain a hold of oneself. It’s being the person who never gets mad, who cannot be rattled, because they are in control of their passions—rather than controlled by their pa...
Pride blunts the very instrument we need to own in order to succeed: our mind. Our ability to learn, to adapt, to be flexible, to build relationships, all of this is dulled by pride.
Plutarch’s reflection that we don’t so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience [we have] of things.
Patrick Vlaskovits, who was part of the initial conversation that the term growth hacker came out of, put it well: The more innovative your product is, the more likely you will have to find new and no...
Our ambition should not be to win, then, but to play with our full effort.
Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so, as Shakespeare put it.
No one is entitled to relationships only because their work is genius. Relationships have to be earned, and maintained.