The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice in the matter. The voice in our heads won't shut up until we discover if we're right, if we can do it, if we can make something happen. This is an art, our art, and to leave it bottled up is a crime.
You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.
It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.
An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.
The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.
Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.
When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.
If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.
If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.
We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.
On the other hand technology brings within your reach the great therapy of music; this activates the inner living cells of your body, stimulates the energy of the inner self and helps to unite the conscious mind with the other portions of your being.
The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.
Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice.
Just because you’re winning a game doesn’t mean it’s a good game.
You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.
If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.
Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.
The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.
You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.
Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist
Organize your reality according to your strength; organize your reality according to your playfulness; according to your dreams; according to your joy; according to your hopes - and then you can help those who organize their reality according to their fears.
Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.
Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.
The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.
