Being busy is not the same as being productive. In fact, being busy is a form of laziness -- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
Be a member of your target market and don’t speculate what others need or will be willing to buy.
Avoid compulsively making things worse.
Autobiografía de un yogui, de Paramahansa Yogananda (Ananda, 2010). Éste es uno de los libros más impactantes que leyó Dan mientras vivió en la selva. Steve Jobs pidió que repartieran este libro entre...
Así que quiero animar a la gente a que, en lugar de eso, aspire a lo pequeño. Que te sitúes en un punto medio, allí donde la gente pueda encontrarte. Que tengas algún tipo de interacción con una tribu...
Así que no podemos obedecer más que los demás para competir con ellos. Por tanto, tenemos que superar a los demás en cuanto a capacidad de liderazgo y de resolución de problemas…
As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, I use lemon like I use salt. Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it’s probably acid.
As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don’t have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?
As William Gibson, who coined the term cyberspace, has said: The future is already here—it is just unevenly distributed.
As Tony Robbins would say, The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.
Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: We are what we do repeatedly.
Aprende de los grandes, no de la competencia
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
Annie’s latest book, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, focuses on strategies for great decision-making.
Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public.
And if you say you’re not creative, look at how much you’re missing out on just because you’ve told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we’re born with that some people...
Always make new mistakes! I actually get royalties of about $50 per year from Quotable Quotes for this one.
All those artists and writers who bemoan how hard the work is, and oh, how tedious the creative process, and oh, what a tortured genius they are. Don’t buy into it. . . . As if difficulty and struggle...
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the s...