A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order. Votes: 8
Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way. Votes: 8
Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship. Votes: 6
Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say. Votes: 6
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it. Votes: 5
In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too. Votes: 4
Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows. Votes: 4
Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet? Votes: 4
Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again. Votes: 4
The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. Votes: 4
Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions. Votes: 4
For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze. Votes: 4
You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box. Votes: 4
Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative. Votes: 4
One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him. Votes: 4
When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it. Votes: 4
A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be. Votes: 3
Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. Votes: 2
A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. Votes: 1
A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label. Votes: 1
I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it? Votes: 1
The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear. Votes: 1
Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days. Votes: 1
A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear. Votes: 1
Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move. Votes: 1
I had a dream about you making balloon animals for kids. You were out of balloons and the kids were out of patience, so you inflated their imaginations instead. Votes: 1
Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success. Votes: 1
Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections. Votes: 1
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry. Votes: 1
Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales? Votes: 1
A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place. Votes: 0
Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion. Votes: 0
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing. Votes: 0
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing. Votes: 0
Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities. Votes: 0
Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit. Votes: 0
Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer. Votes: 0
I had a dream about you starting a pet store. You didn't have any customers yet, and I was your guinea pig. Votes: 0
Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream. Votes: 0
Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand. Votes: 0
The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it. Votes: 0
Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you. Votes: 0
Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self. Votes: 0
Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion. Votes: 0
The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire. Votes: 0
Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers. Votes: 0
My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect. Votes: 0