Daniel Burrus Quotes

#1. Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.

Daniel Burrus

#2. I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

Daniel Burrus

#3. There are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

Brad Paisley

#4. If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

Victor Hugo

#5. Mr. Nobley: I assure you, I am taking an inordinate amount of pleasure from this ball, but none of it has to do with any of these bumblers.

Shannon Hale

#6. Theres no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

Daniel Burrus

#7. I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

Henry Rollins

#8. Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

Daniel Burrus

#9. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Daniel Burrus

#10. How did you do it? How did you manage to remain unmangled?"
"By holding on to just one rule."
"Which?"
"To place nothing-nothing-above the verdict of my own mind.

Ayn Rand

#11. Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

Daniel Burrus

#12. In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Alfred Hitchcock

#13. He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.

Walter Russell

#14. It used to be that the big eat the small; now it's the fast that eat the slow. Fast is the new big.

Daniel Burrus

#15. The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that capital does but, traditionally, labor cannot. So the Internet frees workers to be based anywhere and work for employers anywhere.

Leila Janah

#16. Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.

James Taranto

#17. Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

Daniel Burrus

#18. Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy.

Caitlin Moran