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“How much you want to make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains? Yeah. If coach would've put me in fourth quarter...we'd have been state champions, no…
“He was able to turn out thousands of paintings over his lifetime while his contemporaries were lucky to turn out a hundred” – Mike Michalowicz discussing Sir Peter Lely A…
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. […] Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you…
“I don’t think I ever sang the same way twice. And I don’t think I ever sang the same tempo. One night is a little bit slower and the next…
That was my absolute favorite song for most of my teenage years. I had a visceral reaction to it and it touched me on a deep level. Because it matched what I was going through at the time (or at least what I thought I was going through – “love” at that age is quite the mercurial thing.)
There’s a term in competitive gaming called “Elo hell”. The phrase comes from the Elo ranking system, which was originally created for chess matches in an attempt to match players…
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.” ― Mark Twain I’m a big proponent of tracking key metrics in your business. (For those unfamiliar with the term, a metric is…
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” –…
“They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead Why should I be standing in line Just waiting for bread? Once I built…
A few years ago, I did a string of articles talking about the importance of charging appropriately. They talked about how customer loyalty can sometimes be fleeting, how low prices…