Accomplishing the most that you’re capable of in what you choose.
You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.38
You rush in to stamp out the sparks and end up fanning them into flames. This is the risk.
You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings.
You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. Or, like Rockefeller, choose not to.
You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible—and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some external obstacle! Perhaps, but...
You must be able to explicitly say who you are building your thing for. You must know what you are aiming for—you’ll miss otherwise. You need to know this so you can make the decisions that go into pr...
You know you’re not the only one who has to accept things you don’t necessarily like, right? It’s part of the human condition. If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them i...
You know what is a better response to an attack or a slight or something you don’t like? Love. That’s right, love.
You don’t convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there. Or you look for leverage to make them listen. Or you create an alterat...
You can pay for influence the way you can pay for sex, but from what I understand neither is quite the same as when you get it the old-fashioned way. Just as earned media is always better than paid me...
Yet for years, this was a scenario that marketers tolerated and accepted as part of the job. We all told ourselves that you go to market with the product you have, not the one you want. And then we wo...
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. —PUBLIUS SYRUS
Working on improving your product until it screams Share me with everyone you know—that’s less fun than buying a back-page ad that everyone (who still reads newspapers) will see.
Without an accurate accounting of our own abilities compared to others, what we have is not confidence but delusion. How are we supposed to reach, motivate, or lead other people if we can’t relate to...
With their aggression, intensity, self-absorption, and endless self-promotion, our competitors don’t realize how they jeopardize their own efforts (to say nothing of their sanity). We will challenge t...
While you’re sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You’re going soft. You’re not aggressive enough. You’re not pressing ahead. You’ve g...
Whether you’re currently a marketing executive or a college grad about to enter the field—the first growth hackers have pioneered a new way. Some of their strategies are incredibly technical and compl...
Whether you live in the snake pit of Washington, D.C., work among the materialism of Wall Street, or grew up in a closed-minded small town, you can live well. Plenty of others have.
Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity.