Make Your Mark Quotes

“personal purpose, start with these questions: How will the world be better off thanks to you having been on this earth? What are your unique gifts and superpowers? Who have you been when you’ve been at your best? Who must you fearlessly become? At the intersection of these four questions lies your personal purpose.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“when you’re innovating, sheer thinking just won’t work. What gets you there is fast iteration, and fast failing. And when you fail, you’ve done something great: you’ve learned something. In hindsight, it might look a little embarrassing, and people will say, “You should’ve known that.” But the truth is you couldn’t have known because it’s unchartered territory.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Whatever your strengths are, they will likely lead straight into your weaknesses.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“in the early stages of building a brand, the problem you’re solving should be a constant guiding light.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Pick a vision that is ambitious and far-reaching enough to last decades, not years. Commit”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“the best businesses aren’t profit-driven or even product-driven; they’re purpose-driven. They”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“To make an impact with creativity, you must love what you do. Otherwise, don’t bother. It requires too many hours of hardship, self-doubt, and pain to conceive of something new and birth it into the world. It takes struggle that you genuinely believe is worth the pain. You must do it as a labor of love.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Being able to see the world in a fresh way is the essence of being an entrepreneur. You have an idea about the way the world ought to be. You have a theory about why and how you are going to connect the dots.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“we need to—as much as we can—take fear out of the game. One way to do this is to imagine that you are already successful. You’ve looked into the future, and you’ve succeeded. What would you enjoy doing today given that knowledge?”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Thought, if not written down and shared with others, changes nothing. Does it matter?”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“After high school, kids know everything, after their bachelor’s degree, they know something, and after a PhD, they now know that they know nothing.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“But unlike traditional measures of success—like money, titles, or status—the creative mind is driven by a desire to see creativity come to life. Success is making an impact in what matters most to you.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Consumers don’t need many things from your brand—they just need one thing from your brand. You”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Staying focused on the problem also prevents you from falling into the fatal trap of assuming the world is waiting with bated breath for your product to launch. When I used to work in advertising, we would joke that the “insight” in the creative brief was often something along the lines of, “I wish there were a crunchy cereal with raisins that was healthy and also delicious.” But people do not wish this. They might have a hard time finding a quick breakfast that doesn’t make them feel fat or sluggish. And maybe your crunchy raisin cereal is the perfect response to this issue. But they are not waking up in the morning wishing for raisiny, crunchy goodness. Similarly, people are not wishing for your idea to exist, because they don’t even know it’s an option. So when you sit down to clarify what problem you’re solving, a great initial test is to imagine someone’s inner monologue. Is the problem you’ve identified something that a real human might actually be thinking?”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Artist, architect, and activist Maya Lin’s purpose shows up not only in what she makes but also in what she chooses not to make. She spends her time focused solely on the projects and causes that allow her to grow and contribute. She says “no” to the rest. Restraint and discipline come to those who are clear about their purpose in life.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“It’s not about making money; it’s about making an impact.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Most companies are full of ideas, but they don’t know how to go about finding out if those ideas work,” Ries says. “If you want to harvest all those ideas, allow employees to experiment more—so they can find out the answers to their questions themselves.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“That’s why the best businesses aren’t profit-driven or even product-driven; they’re purpose-driven.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“I’ve always thought that the hardest and most valuable thing in work is to get a group of smart people to work together toward a common goal.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“DON’T JUST INVENT SOMETHING, FIX SOMETHING Ideally, the impulse to invent emerges organically, from witnessing—or, even better, experiencing—something that isn’t working and then not being able to rest until you fix it.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“One of the major shifts of the digital age has been pervasive connectivity—to each other and to every piece of information ever created. What this has revealed is a far more complex system, with countless overlapping constituents, where real value is often at the intersection of unplanned encounters and collaborations.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Pick a vision that is ambitious and far-reaching enough to last decades, not years. Commit everything to your cause. Ensure that tough decisions are purpose-driven, especially when it hurts.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“the most successful people in the workplace tend to be the ones who give selflessly to others without expectation of”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Like relationships, loyalty isn’t created in a single conversation or transaction. Instead, it’s built over time. One of the best ways you can establish loyalty is through a series of touchstones—small things you repeatedly do that create a positive impact in someone’s life.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“2. Reduce the number of steps required. Cut out as many stipulations, actions, unnecessary choices, and extraneous options as you can. An action menu with twenty items is harder to use than an action menu with two, because reading, processing, and deciding among twenty options requires your brain to take many more cognitive steps.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“They have an intense bias to action and a high tolerance for risk, expressed through frequent experimentation and relentless product iteration. They hack together products and services, test them, and improve them, while their legacy competition edits project plans in PowerPoint.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Restraint and discipline come to those who are clear about their purpose in life.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“He defines purpose as being in the right place with the people who matter to you, doing your life’s work. So the endeavor becomes, in Richard’s words, to “pack” and “repack” one’s life—discarding ideas, thoughts, duties, old baggage about relationships, in favor of packing the things you truly need to be at your best in life.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“To bring respect back to elderhood in America.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark

“Aging should be conceived of as an era of continual growth and renewal, rather than a period of decline,”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Make Your Mark