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Think progress, not perfection.

It's much easier to control our perceptions and emotions than it is to give up our desire to control other people and events.

why should customers do that? Have you actually made it easy for them to spread your product? Is the product even worth talking about?

Persist and resist". Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus

What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions,

Don't just want fuel. You need it. You can't go

Never in a hurry never worried never desperate never stopping short

we cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations." How

People learn from their failures. Seldom do they learn anything from success." It's

Not me," you think.

No marketer is ever going to push something with the stink of reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions.

The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself. - AARON GINN

In every situation, life is asking us a question, and our actions are the answer.

Coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder ...

Whereas marketing was once brand-based, with growth hacking it becomes metric and ROI driven.

You're not as good as you think. You don't have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures.

The world can show you the truth, but no one can force you to accept it.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth.

Outward appearances are deceptive. What's within them, beneath them, is what matters.

Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home.

Richard Branson likes to say, is that "business opportunities are like buses; there's always another coming around.

When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.

Philosophy's true use - "An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships".

If action is what we do when we still have some agency over our situation, the will is what we depend on when agency has all but disappeared.

director of growth at StumbleUpon, put it best: growth hacking is more of a mindset than a tool kit.

Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will we be blocked by obstacles, or will we advance through and over them?

Their lifestyle is the result of prioritizing.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

Great times are great softeners

Once you start attacking an obstacle, quitting is not an option.

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice! - EURIPIDES

Snark functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, nonconformity, and simple error. Everyone is being snarked into line,

And what is up to us? Our emotions Our judgments Our creativity Our attitude Our perspective Our desires Our decisions Our determination

The reason the knives are so sharp online is because the pie is so small.

False ideas about yourself destroy you. For

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER - IF YOU LET IT.

listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. - THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.

Exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics.

great failing is "to see yourself as more than you are and to value yourself at less than your true worth." A

Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever.

The greatest work and art comes from wrestling with the void

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

We forget: In life, it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you've been given.

A growth hacker doesn't see marketing as something one does but rather as something one builds into the product itself.

you must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.

Life speeds on the bold and favors the brave.

Wherever we are, whatever we're doing and herever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.

Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They

All of us waste precious life doing things we don't like, to prove ourselves to people we don't respect, and to get things we don't want.

Every obstacle is unique to each of us. But the responses they elicit are the same: Fear. Frustration. Confusion. Helplessness. Depression. Anger.

How do you get, maintain, and multiply attention in a scalable and efficient way?

No slavery is more disgraceful," he quipped, "than one which is self-imposed.

Right thing is usually clear and intuitive enough to feel in our gut.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

In the pay-per-pageview model, every post is a conflict of interest.

A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.

It's three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will.

It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. - MARCUS AURELIUS

He chose the latter, channeling the energy

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet

We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y.

Every negative has a positive. Push a negative hard enough and deep enough that it will break through into its counterside.

understand the range of potential outcomes and know that they are not all good

Media was once about protecting a name; on the web it is about building one.

sometimes being superficial - taking things only at first glance - is the most profound approach.

Seize this moment to deploy the plan that has long sat dormant in your head.

Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive.

It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows," Epictetus says.

Growth hacking really is a mindset rather than a tool kit.

We're all just humans, doing the best we can. We're all just trying to survive, and in the process, inch the world forward a little bit.

In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change.

Each project matters, and the only degrading part is giving less than one is capable of giving.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don't fall.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!" - EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13 W

There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.

Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity." Just

Perseverance. Force of purpose. Indomitable will. Those traits were once uniquely part of the American DNA. But they've been weakening for some time.

attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simultaneously.

Sometimes, staying put, going sideways, or moving backward is actually the best way to eliminate what blocks or impedes your path.