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1 " Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking. "
― Reid Hoffman , The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
2 " Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B. "
3 " Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally. "
4 " Novelist Jonathan Franzen gets it right when he says inauthentic people are obsessed with authenticity "
5 " Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted. "
6 " Pixar started as a company that sold a special computer for doing digital animation; it took a while till they got into the moviemaking business. Similarly, Starbucks originally sold only coffee beans and coffee equipment; they hadn't planned to sell coffee by the cup. "
7 " They scribbled observations in notebooks. "
8 " The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money. "
9 " for many people “twenty years of experience” is really one year of experience repeated twenty times. "
10 " For life in permanent beta, the trick is to never stop starting. "
11 " All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA, and creation is the essence of entrepreneurship. "
12 " Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio of work that’s not tied to your employer. "
13 " If you’re in permanent beta in your career, twenty years of experience actually is twenty years of experience because each year will be marked by new, enriching challenges and opportunities. Permanent beta is essentially a lifelong commitment to continuous personal growth. Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’. If "
14 " you need to think and act like you’re running a start-up: your career. "
15 " When the Naysayers Are Loud, Turn Up the Music "
16 " Take intelligent and bold risks to accomplish something great. Build a network of alliances to help you with intelligence, resources, and collective action. Pivot to a breakout opportunity. "
17 " Which plan offers the most learning potential? "
18 " Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’. If you’re not growing, you’re contracting. If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward. "
19 " A team in the business world will tend to perform at the level of the worst individual team member "
20 " Until you hear “No,” you haven’t been turned down. "