Si dejas que el aprendizaje te lleve a la acción, te haces rico».
Scott believes there are six elements of humor: naughty, clever, cute, bizarre, mean, and recognizable. You have to have at least two dimensions to succeed.
Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby. I read this now largely forgotten science fiction book at about the time I was starting my company, and it influenced me deeply. One key idea is the role of entrepreneu...
Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
Recuerda que los beneficios sólo te beneficiarán en la medida en que puedas disfrutar de ellos.
Recomiendo encarecidamente la lectura de «The CEO of Automattic on Holding ‘Auditions’ to Build a Strong Team» del número de abril de 2014 de la revista Harvard Business Review (lo encontrarás en hbr....
Realistic goals, goals restricted to the average ambition level, are uninspiring and will only fuel you through the first or second problem, at which point you throw in the towel. If the potential pay...
Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—the book you’re writing, the album, the movie—and staying there for a long, lo...
Rave reviews of the books Sapiens, Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Influence, and Man’s Search for Meaning, among others
Put a Post-it on your computer screen or set an Outlook reminder to alert you at least three times daily with the question: Are you inventing things to do to avoid the important?
Poker has taught me to disconnect failure from outcomes. Just because I lose doesn’t mean I failed, and just because I won doesn’t mean I succeeded—not when you define success and failure around makin...
Pero la gente que tiene muchas ideas buenas, si te dice la verdad, te contará que tiene incluso más ideas malas.
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. —CALVIN, from Calvin and Hobbes
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. –Joseph Campbell
Para cambiar radicalmente de vida no necesitas correr una carrera de cien kilómetros, ni doctorarte en nada, ni reinventarte por completo. Son las cosas pequeñas hechas con constancia las que se convi...
PICK THE RIGHT AUDIENCE TO SUCK IN FRONT OF If anybody is going to go out and pitch investors, my advice is to make your first 10 meetings with investors that you don’t really want funding from, becau...
Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see them first. —Kurt Vonnegut
Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplify, simplify. . . . A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Or Dick Fosbury, who went backwards over the high jump bar for the first time in the Olympics, winning gold — ERIC: 1968, you got it. TIM: Ridiculed, then mimicked, and eventually made standard.
One of the most common Kindle highlights from The 4-Hour Workweek complements this: A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing...