“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Ben Franklin
“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.” — A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs | www.nytimes.com | Readability
“You escape the madness by seeing it as a thing you do, not a thing you make. You’re not making one pot, you are a potter.” — The one shot world – a case for career entrepreneurship and casual experimentation | blog.thestartuptoolkit.com | Readability
“Writer’s block arrived once quality was attributed to inspiration.” — Trollope on shipping – The Startup Toolkit Blog
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First, delighting customers doesn’t build loyalty; reducing their effort—the work they must do to get their problem solved—does.
Second, acting deliberately on this insight can help improve customer service, reduce customer service costs, and decrease customer churn.
” — Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers - Harvard Business Review“A restaurants best investment will always be the head chef.” — Gordon Ramsay
“One of Graphite’s greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses is the fact that very little of it was actually “designed” in the traditional sense. By and large Graphite evolved gradually, hurdle by hurdle, as problems arose. Many times the hurdles were foreseeable and various pre-emptive solutions seemed natural. However it can be useful to avoid solving problems you do not actually have yet, even if it seems likely that you soon will. The reason is that you can learn much more from closely studying actual failures than from theorizing about superior strategies.” — The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Graphite
“Believe that not much happens of any significance when we’re in our comfort zone. I hear people say, ‘But I’m concerned about security.’ My response to that is simple: ‘Security is for cadavers.’” — Bob Parsons: A New Billionaire’s 10 Rules for Success - The Wealth Report - WSJ
“Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination.” — Mark Twain
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” — Attributed to Albert Einstein but it may have just been a sign hanging on his wall at Princeton.
“The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more automatic, so they require less energy.” — The Only Way to Get Important Things Done
“It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.” — Benjamin Elijah Mays
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool that I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
” — Steve Jobs(Source: jonathanfields.com)
“Don’t be small because you can’t figure out how to get big. Consider being small because it might be better.” — Seth’s Blog: Economies of small
“The brilliance of Facebook management is encouraging everyone to take initiative, take risks, and wear as many hats as you can.” — Joe Hewitt