Life is too short not to love what you do, and it’s much, much too short to wait around until someone hands you a billion dollars.
… there are some HR companies that will shuffle all the resumes for the week and then throw the first 50 in the trash can because they do not want to hire unlucky people?
Bureaucracies are built by and for people who busy themselves proving they are necessary, especially when they suspect they aren’t.
For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
Oh, and one last thing - if you think that your $300 flash can light the stage better than a $10k-$1M lighting truss, operated by a skilled technician who took all day to get the light perfect on stage, then stop taking pictures and revisit lighting 101.
Find a problem that’s not solved and try to solve it in a way that’s profitable. Don’t be influenced by what people have been doing so far in that area and don’t be afraid to try new things that may seem crazy compared to the status quo. That’s when innovation happens.
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” -Betty Reese
One of my MBA professors would never let us finish a sentence if we used sound fillers. It was agonizing at first, but really paid off by the end of the semester
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
If it is known exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
It’s not until the tide goes out that you realize who’s swimming naked .
A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not what ships were built for.
When my daughter was seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, ‘You mean they forget?’” - Howard Ikemoto (artist and art professor)
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
— Robert A. Heinlein
