“Being small is nothing to be insecure or ashamed about. Small is great. Small is independence. Small is opportunity. Celebrate it. Don’t hide from it.” – Jason Fried, 37 signals, from his article on Inc., Don’t Exaggerate Your Size.
“Bankruptcy is never fun, but when you give up something that wasn’t getting you where you needed to go, sometimes you discover a future better than you ever expected.” – Seth Godin from Seth Godin’s Blog
“Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It’s a form of spiritual emptiness.” – Cornel West on Real Time with Bill Maher, Episode 202.
“The Yin and Yang are clear: Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it’s unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.” – Seth Godin, author of Tribes.
“Overloading the decision makers with information … makes picking up that signature harder, not easier. To be a successful decision maker, we have to edit.” – an excerpt from Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
“Some people worry that giving away too much information might undercut the value of their products. It never happens. The stuff you share proves your expertise and attracts customers. It makes them want to talk about you and to you.” – excerpt from Word of Mouth Marketing by Andy Sernovitz.
“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.” – an excerpt from Chapter 8, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
“Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last.” – Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks.
“People want to copy us… to do what we’re doing. We keep telling them,’Your success isn’t in doing what we do; it’s in discovering your own way. Don’t do what we do. You just have to be. That means commit yourself to being who you say you are: act like, think like, look like feel like, speak like…be it! You will create your own way by doing what you do. Our secret to success lies in our commitment to being who we say we are. Just be it. Your challenge is to “just be” who you want to be.’” – John Yokoyama, owner of the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market, an excerpt from the book Authenticity by Joseph Pine.
