Top 34 Josh Kaufman Quotes
#1. Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal
#2. When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.
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#3. The zealous display the strength of their belief, while the judicious show the grounds of it. - WILLIAM SHENSTONE, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POET AND LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
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#4. Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.
Dick Francis
#5. I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
Francois Rabelais
#6. By making offers Modular, the business can create and improve each offer in isolation, then mix and match offers as necessary to better serve their customers. It's like playing with LEGOS: once you have a set of pieces to work with, you can put them together in all sorts of interesting ways.
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#7. Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.
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#8. Ideas are cheap - what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.
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#9. The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn't replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough.
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#10. Here's a curious fact about human beings: we have a really hard time realizing that something isn't there.
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#11. If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.
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#12. Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
#13. Email is 20-30 times more effective in generating a purchase than any other tool.
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#14. By choosing to innovate instead of compete, Apple successfully captured a leadership share of a very competitive market.
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#17. If you want an audience, start a fight. - IRISH PROVERB
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#19. You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.
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#20. Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.
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#21. The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.
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#22. Options are often an overlooked form of value - flexibility is one of the Three Universal Currencies (discussed later). Find a way to give people more flexibility, and you may discover a viable business model.
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#23. Provide significant value to each subscriber on a regular basis. 2. Build a subscriber base and continually attract new subscribers to compensate for attrition. 3. Bill customers on a recurring basis. 4. Retain each subscriber as long as possible.
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#24. Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.
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#25. At the core, all successful businesses sell some combination of money, status, power, love, knowledge, protection, pleasure, and excitement. The more clearly you articulate how your product satisfies one or more of these drives, the more attractive your offer will become.
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#26. The benefit of making your offers small and Modular is that it allows you to take advantage of a strategy called Bundling. Bundling allows you to repurpose value that you have already created to create even more value.
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#27. As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.
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#28. Pen wanted to ask if becoming a sorcerer made a man more, or less, attractive as a husband, but he had an uneasy feeling that he could guess.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#29. Every time your customers purchase from you, they're deciding that they value what you have to offer more than they value anything else their money could buy at that moment.
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#30. Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else ... By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product. - PAUL BUCHHEIT, CREATOR OF GMAIL AND GOOGLE ADSENSE
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#32. The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
Martin Scorsese
#33. If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.
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#34. The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance.
Robert Kiyosaki
