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Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.

Learning by anecdote is risky, but waiting for scientific proof is too.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. - J. S. Bryan

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world ... not make a fast buck.

Entrepreneurship is about doing, not learning to do.

You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

picked a short, generic, evergreen hashtag: #MotoX.

Companies should always want to delight their customers.

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.

Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.

Bootstrapping goes awry when entrepreneurs focus on saving pennies to the detriment of the Big Picture.

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

There is no shortcut to awesome. Zoe Winters

I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

Accept diversity and don't take any crap.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.

Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

Suck up with subtlety.

Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur - or APE.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives.

Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

When you've worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

Happiness is temporary and fleeting ... Joy is the right goal.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.

The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

If achieving success were easy, more people would do it.

Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves

I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.

Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question Why should I buy this book?

Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.

Take my word for it: More people will like you if you believe that people are good until proven bad.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

If you're not pissing someone off on social media, you're not using it aggressively enough.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

The Future belongs to those who can spread ideas.

Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule ... use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

Not many people agree with what I do.

The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting
intelligent life becomes difficult.