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“No great creative project can thrive (or even survive) off the energy of one person.”
― Scott Belsky

“Most Americans could retire on what they waste on car loans.”
― Larry Burkett, Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace

“The easier it is to quantify, the less it’s worth.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn’t lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“The system isn’t something you bring to the business. It’s something you derive from the process of building the business.”
― Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

“It is very possible that from a strong position she could have helped him see how he had some issues inside his organization that were not only creating problems for her, but were likely problematic for other relationships and within the company as well. She could have been a good partner, and helped him, as she solved her own problem with him. Usually when we confront a friend, for example, about an issue we are having with him or her, it helps that person in other relationships as well. As I said to the woman in the workshop, any time you are so dependent on a client that you cannot be honest with him, then you are no longer serving that client well. We need to be able to be honest with people in order to serve them, to help them. If we are afraid of the consequences of being honest, then we have lost our usefulness to them.”
― Henry Cloud, The One-Life Solution: Reclaim Your Personal Life While Achieving Greater Professional Success

“Paradoxically, the best way to attract good work is by doing good work.”
― Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

“By announcing what we are about to show, showing it, and then clamming up until the first questions are asked, we can help clients to deal with the new and shocking revelation we’ve placed in front of them. And remember, it’s always shocking—it’s never what they expected.”
― Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

“This is the problem with branding: it has become more important than the thing it purports to brand.”
― Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

“I mention this to show that a corporation’s brand identity is dependent on dozens of factors beyond the control and experience of graphic designers. In truth, it is beyond the control of the advertising and PR wonks who talk the brand talk. There is an important role for designers in the creation of honest, functional, and clear depiction of any venture’s public-facing image, but when that becomes confused with the creation of what the brand gurus call brand values, problems ensue.”
― Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

“When approximately 80% of the environmental impact is predetermined at the concept and design stage there is clearly action to take. As Kate Krebbs, executive director of the National Recycling Coalition (NRC) in the USA says, “Waste is a design flaw.”
― Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

“The designer can create demand for a product or service so could also influence your client to do things better.”
― Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

“It took more than one or two years before we got contacted by real clients as a result of the publicity. Fame is mostly talk. You need to convince people over time that you can do real and strong work.”
― Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

“It’s the feeling of being an eternal student that keeps this profession interesting.”
― Adrian Shaughnessy, How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul

“When I tell young parents about the power of compounding money, they often want to set money aside for their children’s future. “Setting aside” money for a child, however, is very different from encouraging a child to earn, save, and invest. ​Giving money promotes weakness and dependence. Teaching money lessons and cheerleading the struggle promotes strength, independence, and pride.”
― Andrew Hallam, Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School

“Greed might be the greatest hallucinogenic known to man.”
― Andrew Hallam, Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School

“As Upton Sinclair said long ago, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”8”
― Andrew Hallam, Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School