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Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million
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Find something that people are doing inefficiently and create a solution that makes it substantially easier (ten times easier) to achieve the same result.
“LAW 46
Never Appear Too Perfect
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
Never Appear Too Perfect
Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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“Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.”
― The Greatest Salesman in the World
― The Greatest Salesman in the World
“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.”
― The Greatest Salesman in the World
― The Greatest Salesman in the World
“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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