Focus groups are designers and leadership abdicating responsibility.
Jony Ive
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It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
Margin is the space between our load and our limits. It is the amount allowed beyond that which is needed. Margin is the gap between rest and exhaustion, the space between breathing freely and suffocating.
- Richard Swenson, M.D.
Margin also gets much easier to create when you stop making time the commodity you sell.
Be concise.
Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.
Ron Swanson
Don’t manage people, manage activities.
As we scale Treehouse, I’ve been getting an on-the-job-MBA. It’s both stressful and really fun at the same time. One new tactic I’m trying is a bi-weekly 30 minute 1-on-1 meeting with each person I lead, with a very specific agenda.
I have a 30 minute meeting (Google Hangout or…
Hot sauce must be hot. If you don’t like it hot, use less. We don’t make mayonnaise here.
David Tran, founder of Huy Fong Foods, makers of Sriracha sauce
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Helpful flow chart to know when to use a QR code.
Our job is to educate prospects from the outset about how we operate.
Alan Weiss
I wrote in chapter nine of Steal Like An Artist: “Most people I know hate to think about money. Do yourself a favor: Learn about money as soon as you can.”
Here are 10 of my favorite quotes about money:
“The key to eternal happiness is low overhead and no debt.”
—Lynda Barry“The…
Fiscally responsible people can be creatively reckless.
