January 2011
28 posts
“My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered...”
– Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter
The Objective Viewpoint
Simon Cowell:
Talk 10% of the time and listen 90% of the time.
Not only do I want to teach other people, I genuinely - on an hourly - basis want to teach myself. This is what can happen to you when you’re successful is that you start to believe your own hype and then you start living in this bubble which is your world. And you start to believe that is the only world that exists which is...
“Words are things. I’m convinced. You must be careful about the words you...”
– Maya Angelou
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
“There is nothing in a caterpillar to suggest a butterfly”
“The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.” — Andrew Carnegie
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin
“The basic economic...
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac
“Dum vivimus, vivamus:
While we live, let’s live”
“To travel is better than to arrive”
“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.”
– Anna Wintour
Have a purpose bigger than your product.
“Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever...”
