In Life

This is my very personal and a growing list of quotations I live by every day.

  • Do not make uninformed decisions
  • Never doubt yourself
  • Do not let people get away with their BS
  • Always start with the positive
  • Study your partners well before join in
  • Try not to get a partner
  • Always run for the cash flow
  • Get customers before building anything
  • Solve a pain as a business
  • Have a leverage and hang on to the relationships
  • Agree only to the best deal on the outset
  • You get what you incentivize
  • Without a target you’ll miss it everytime
  • If you cant measure it, you can’t improve it
  • Write a brain dump every day
  • Work out daily
  • Keep laser focus on your current business
  • Take on less responsibilities
  • Under promise
  • Design a product that people lust not just love
  • Eat healthy at every occasion
  • Motivators are fear, wealth and curiosity for most people
  • Opportunities abound, time is scarce
  • Be authentic
  • Avoid beating around the bush
  • You always have NO to begin with
  • Try to stay away from the parallel comparison with other products
  • Live in NOW and focus on your eyelids
  • When on a business call, always have a deck with you
  • Understand your audience
  • In the business description, do not emphasize on the problems you solve more than what you do to solve them
  • Follow 4 Agreements
  • Do not drink beer
  • Eat healthy and avoid sugar
  • Competition is for LOSERS (Peter Thiel)
  • Be careful with numbers and use them if you have to
  • Be more careful with names and use them sparingly
  • Whenever your customer does not feel well, reschedule the meeting
  • Take every meeting seriously and do not copy/paste material
  • Do not overestimate people’s ability to deliver or keep motivated
  • Don’t set out to be rich, set a financial goal and achieve it
  • Expect to make 90% of your mistakes on people judgements
  • Practice getting into troubles in good times
  • Never, ever get entangled in talking about other people’s business — stay positive and stay out of it
  • Always smile
  • Never talk negatively about anyone or anything
  • Before every meeting check with everyone to be on the same page
  • Never say you cannot disclose the thing – just dont say the thing
  • “if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well” – Branson’s dad
  • Ask people questions from their field of expertise that’s the only way to get good insights
  • Remember the apple SEED Rule
  • Do not have an office desk
  • Think Big, Start Small
  • Always Run. Never Walk
  • Send positive reminders – ALWAYS! even you’re so pissed but communicate positively and communicate more
  • Don’t think too much! Do!
  • Business is only a practice of disciple and common sense
  • In marketing never talk about the product, talk about the values!!!
  • From people, product and market, market is the most important factor
  • Build the best damn thing and do everything you can
  • Have a metric to measure anything you wanna improve
  • In your messaging strategy, take a page from politicians and put your weakness upfront
  • Always have a smile and respect the police
  • Reframe rejection as data collection
  • Schedule a time for an activity that you hesitate
  • Think about intents when trying to reach customers
  • Astound your friends with the power of concentration
  • Never put anything in your mouth unless you have a specific reason for it
  • Never complain never explain
  • Skate to where the puck is going
  • People who pay more are less headaches
  • Doing good is good business
  • Today is life, tomorrow never comes
  • Remember people’s name
  • Mark Twain said:“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
  • Don’t drink alcohol on the plane
  • The best motivator is fear of loss not the hope of gain
  • Wealth is what people want
  • Money is generated from measurement and leverage
  • Dont be a donkey in life hay and water fable
  • Whats on the other side of fear?
  • Discipline is freedom
  • Dont say yes unless it is a fuck yesss
  • Be your awesome self. Authenticity is key
  • Say thank you dont say sorry
  • When your customers really want you to succeed, you will likely to succeed
  • For first time meeting be 20mins early.
  • Dont let arrogance creep on me
  • Think about conceptual leaps
  • Use but not over user humor — dont use humor when asking for money
  • Commercials must be funny
  • Never share your plans publicly
  • Everyday do something that scares you
  • Life expands or shrinks according to one’s courage
  • The magnitude of the challenge multiplied by the intensity of the attack equals you’re rate of growth
  • If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford
  • Sit sit, walk walk, don’t wobble
  • Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
  • Remove everything to its essence but don’t lose the poetry
  • Dont say thanks at the end of a presentation
  • End on a strong note in meetings and conversations
  • Always seek advice you don’t know jack!!!
  • The public is not the threat
  • What attracts humans is change
  • Life is competition, selection and it must breed
  • Epidemics = law of the few, stickiness and the context
  • Proximity overpowers similarity
  • Define one metric and drive that in your company
  • Kill the “why” question
  • To show empathy, mirror the feelings
  • Great is the enemy of good
  • Meetings are for showing authority!
  • There are 3 types of products, vitamins, painkillers and drugs!
  • Work on products either you love or love its users
  • Viral ideas are simple and competitive
  • Visualize your success
  • Ask yourself in the mirror if you’re serious about any new venture; if you hesitate for more than 2 secs don’t do it!
  • Take sales meeting in the morning but sell in the afternoon right after lunch
  • Be a now-ist
  • Solve a real problem
  • When come up with a new idea try to disprove it first. Why would you buy it instead of would you buy it?
  • Commercial should tell an important, funny story
  • It takes 18 mins for the mind to refocus on a new topic
  • Always talk in the bell curve
  • People work harder for loss aversion than financial profit
  • One new habit at a time
  • Learn to teach to others
  • Perfect is boring
  • Dopamine is released in anticipation. Just like the slot machines
  • Persistence is omnipotent
  • “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman
  • Giving reports gives permission by emulation
  • All you have to decide is what to do with the time that’s given to you. Lord of the Ring
  • If it is not hell yeah, say no
  • Productivity is for robots. Humans are good at asking questions and being creative
  • Nobody gets a Suzuki tattoo
  • Just show up to lead the tribe, don’t invent them. They exist already
  • Remove the gut feeling and the judgment improves
  • To ask questions, use scenario building
  • How you do anything is how you do everything
  • Success is continuous improvement
  • Caring is a competitive advantage
  • Find Real Problems
  • You dont get why you deserve, you get what you negotiate
  • Don’t fight gravity
  • Hire as if your life depends on it
  • Dont use the words never or always
  • Feedback should be facts based
  • It has to look familiar if you want to surprise
  • Investors wanna in what everybody else wants to invest in
  • Exposure leads to familiarity and familiarity leads to subconscious preference
  • Combine the old with the new for surprising familiarity
  • Profitable retention is product market fit
  • The crowd knows best
  • Remember the arm wrestling experience in B3 to make a point about partnerships
  • Coach at the thinking level to get behavioral changes
  • Have a sense of curiosity towards new ideas as it provides an opportunity for trust
  • When you see noncompliance, take a positive intent and ask CURIOSITY questions
  • Dont build menus, build flows – no one has time anymore to navigate and explore menus
  • Wisdom of the the crowds can be gathered by diversity, independence, decentralization, aggregation