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“A common time waster is mal-organization. Its symptom is an excess of meetings. Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time. If executives in an organization spend more than a fairly small part of their time in meetings, it [...]

Character is like water. It will flow over, into and around any obstacles that are present. If it’s poisonous, it’ll undermine the system and sabotage the machine. If it’s healthy and nourishing, everything around it will grow and benefit.

“Setting out on an ocean voyage, with water in gourds and pounded tubers tied up in leaves, he would point his canoe into the right slant of wind, and then along a path between a rising star and an opposite, setting one. With his departure star astern and his destination star ahead, he could keep [...]

I really don’t like Drupal. I’ve been told that “it can do anything”. I think that’s its downfall. Most of the Drupal setups that I’ve used haven’t anticipated all of my use cases. In every case, I’ve had to go back to the developers and ask for additional functionality to be added. Of course, it [...]

“Once you realize that changing the mount of money you need to live on can dramatically increase your chances of success, you have an important choice to make: How much are you willing to sacrifice for the business?” “One surefire way to determine if a bootstrapper is going to succeed or not is to check [...]

The really good manager does not wake up in the morning and say, ‘This is the day that I’m going to cut costs,’ any more than he wakes up and decides to practice breathing. – Warren Buffett

Everything with money is either an investment or the sacrifice of one. This seems simple enough, but the more you think about it, the more shocking is it’s impact. What It Means For Business In short, all any business is about is creating positive returns on shareholder equity that are greater than the combined impact [...]

“They say that bad things remain in your memory longer than good things, a thought originated by people who live monotonous, uniform lives. They do remember more of the bad because their ‘good’ is so uniform, so mundane, and so dull that they can’t remember it. Any unpleasantry, even the smallest, is a deviation from [...]

“I never thought I would be way happier when I had 2X instead of X. You ought to have a good time all the time as you go along. If you say, ‘I don’t really like this job, but in three years it’ll lead to this,’ forget it. Find one you like right now.” — [...]

It is extraordinary to me that the idea of buying dollar bills for 40 cents takes immediately with people or it doesn’t take at all. It’s like an inoculation. If it doesn’t grab a person right away, I find that you can talk to him for years and show him records, and it doesn’t make [...]