The Secret to Success In [whatever]
January 2, 2009 in Happy Links, Happy Quotes, Killer Advice
Chase Jarvis, if you haven't heard of him, is a very successful (by most any measure) commercial photographer. He's also a true mensch -- and as such -- the object of great admiration by many serious photographers.
He is frequently asked the secret to success in photography. I think his answer applies 100% to whatever you're trying to find success in. His answer?
- Be undeniably good (quoting Steve Martin).
- Dedicate at least 10,000 hours (quoting Malcom Gladwell from his new book Outliers: The Story of Success.)
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June 25, 2008 in Happy Quotes"There is nothing that drives a team forward like the fear of public failure, debt, and starvation. Leap off the cliff and start building the airplane on the way down and you might be surprised with what you can pull off.
—Tony Wright, founder and CEO of RescueTime (review eminent)
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January 9, 2008 in Happy Quotes
"I view my life in a way … I'll explain it to you, OK? The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be better as a golfer, I will be better as a person, I will be better as a father, I will be a better husband, I will be better as a friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow. There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better."
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November 12, 2007 in Happy Quotes"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
— Howard Aiken, computing pioneer and innovator
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November 9, 2007 in Happy Quotes"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain
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September 11, 2007 in An interview, Happy Quotes"I feel badly for these people who have forced themselves to become Don Quixote; who are embracing a project that can never go anywhere. Because if you're working on something that can never go anywhere, you don't have to worry about it ever going anywhere.
That weird uncle who's always got some board game he's dreaming up is safe. His board game is never going to get bought by Mattel. His board game is never going to change his life. He can live under the illusion that he's challenging the status quo, when in fact he is hiding."
— Seth Godin (from this unlike-any-other interview of him)
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August 16, 2007 in Happy Quotes"The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike...is to stop thinking about “there are a bunch of reasons i might fall off” and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way."
- Dick Costolo - Founder of Feedburner.com
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August 1, 2007 in Happy QuotesThere is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose the ventures before us.
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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July 11, 2007 in Happy Quotes"We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company."
-Howard Schultz, Chairman of Starbucks
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April 27, 2007 in Happy QuotesDon’t ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don’t work very hard, or the people who aren’t as good as you, your competition shrinks dramatically.
- Maggie Mason, entrepreneur, author, and founder of Mighty Goods
