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Quotes, factoids and other curious teasers to get your creative juices flowing.
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“You’ve just got to do what you want to do. It’s not about doing courses. Just do what you want to do. You want to go out and start something? Do it. You’re going to lose all your money? So what? If you are that sort of person, if you believe in it, you’ll make it.”
— Aussie expat Tim O’Connor, in The business of being… FunkySexyCool [2]
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
— Groucho Marx
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
— American author William Arthur Ward,quoted in Is optimism killing your business or career? [3]
“A market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
— British economist John Maynard Keynes (via @shandsaker)
“We are what we do when it counts.”
— Science fiction author John Steakley.
“Screenager“. n. A teenager who is addicted to the internet and/or video gaming, causing impared development and social dysfunction.
— Victorian era English novelist George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans).
“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”
— Victorian era English novelist George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans).
“The way to succeed is to double your error rate.”
— Thomas J. Watson. Founder, IBM.
“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”
— Irish writer and poet James Joyce
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
— Filmmaker, painter and Pop Art icon Andy Warhol
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
— Albert Einstein
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
— Writer and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Regrets, I’ve had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way”
— Ol’ blue eyes, as quoted in Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s formula for minimising entrepreneurial regrets [4].
“Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.”
— From the inspiration packed crome-dome of Seth Godin
“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.”
— Former US Democratic Senator from Minnesota, Eugene McCarthy
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.”
— Cartoonist Hugh Macleod, author of
“Interesting: Length of Britannica’s entry about Wikipedia: 913 words. Length of Wikipedia’s entry about Britannica: 6,804.”
— Tweeted by US writer Clive Thompson [6]
“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.”
— Iconic American actress Katharine Hepburn
“Using your old mindset and applying it to social media and communities is like filming a play and calling it a movie.”
— Panellist Mick Liubinskas at last week’s “Online Marketing by Design” seminar in Sydney, jointly hosted by Anthill and Mumbrella. Full video of the event will be featured in our Beer O’Clock email tomorrow.
“An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
— Writer, comedian, director and self-confessed Twitter addict Stephen Fry
“Going to MacDonald’s for a salad is like going to a strip club for a hug.”
— Relayed by @SterlingBond [7] during refreshments after Anthill & Mumbrella’s Online Marketing By Design [8] event in Sydney on Tuesday night.
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
— Sigmund Freud
“Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet.
‘Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you’re running out of time,’ the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray.”
— Satirical newspaper The Onion [9]
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
— Heavy words from Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose recent brushes with mortality have clearly left a profound impact on his priorities. Jobs is expected to launch the eagerly anticipated Apple tablet computer at a media event in San Francisco tomorrow morning (AEST).
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Writer, dramatist and musician Douglas Adams
“There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.”
— Henry Ford, quoted by Sue Hirst in If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it [10]
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein
“If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven’t understood the seriousness of the situation.”
— Motivational speaker, leadership guru and chart topping crooner David Brent
“Don’t explain why it can’t be done. Discover how it can be done.”
— Mo Tao (404-319 B.C.)
“When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.”
— Voltaire, the famous French philosopher of the Enlightenment era.
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.”
— Alfred Sheinwold
“Experience is a comb you get after you have gone bald.”
— Proverb
18 December, 2009
“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.”
— Writer, poet, playwright and all round comic genius Spike Milligan
“We also now understand that a quality idea, concept, tool, product or service can receive unprecedented exposure, at little or no marketing cost, if its owners understand the value of making it possible for others to share it.”
— Anthill’s James Tuckerman on the power of ‘sharable [11]‘.
“You’re unique, just like everyone else.”
— Mick Liubinskas in Five similarities between forming habits and deep customer development [12].
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
— Oscar Wilde.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
— Irish writer George Bernard Shaw.
“There is no security on this earth, only opportunity.”
— American General, Douglas Macarthur.
“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
— Actor, writer, comedian and Minister of Silly Walks John Cleese.
“The popular mythology has it that entrepreneurs are risk-seeking. Yet observational research suggests that successful entrepreneurs are in fact risk-averse agents of opportunity. They intensely manage risk to maintain exposures to levels that can be tolerated and to kill off poorly performing ideas earlier than others. Decisiveness is the key.”
— From “Are successful entrepreneurs born or created?” by Christopher Witt, Director of the Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Australian School of Business.
“Locate the nearest 14-year-old teenager and pitch. If he/she doesn’t ‘get it’ in the short attention span mother nature has afforded your chosen sack of hormones, neither will a time-poor investor, client, staff member or business journalist.”
— How to make your message pop (by killing animated polar bears). [13]
26 November, 2009
“After all my agonising over the correct formula to apply, it was pointed out to me that ultimately the value I put on the company is irrelevant because all that matters is what the market is willing to pay.”
— Oodles founder Steve Sherlock, Diary of an entrepreneur raising capital: The dark art of valuations. [14]
Man: “… Everyone was laughing. It was one of the worst moments of my life.”
Friend: “Yeah, but put it in perspective. There’s no way that makes your Wikipedia page.”
— Overheard on a Melbourne train. We’re unsure whether the man actually has a Wikipedia page or whether this is a new turn of phrase.
“You aren’t a failure until you start blaming others for your problems.”
— Anon
“Your formal skills should be a starting point in business, not what you end up doing.”
— From Anthillian Steve Sammartino‘s Outsourcing little tips [15], extracted from his forthcoming Startup School [16] event in Sydney later this month.
— Pop artist Andy Warhol on the democracy of capitalism, in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again), 1975.
“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
— American political scientist John M. Richardson, Jr.
“Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I might remember. Involve me and I will understand.”
— Chinese proverb
30 October, 2009
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
— Henry Ford
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
— Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy.
27 October, 2009
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Silver Screen starlet Mae West
“Nokia products say ‘Made in China’ on the back. Chinese-made Nokia-knockoffs say ‘Made in Finland’.”
— A tweet [17] by prominent US digital strategist Clay Shirky illustrating the branding nouse of global black marketeers
“Ninety percent of life is just showing up.”
— Woody Allen
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
— Ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus on the importance of keeping an open mind.
“Implementing best practice is replicating yesterday; innovation is designing tomorrow.”
— Author and public speaker on lateral thinking and innovation, Paul Sloane.
“It’s really important to me not to be known as Ross when I’m 60.”
— Actor David Schwimmer (Friends) reflecting on the curse of success won young.
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
— Irish writer Jonathan Swift on balance in business.
“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
— Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.” When you’re a small business owner, working with Telstra can be like inviting an elephant into your room. Whenever it turns, you get crushed. Now the Federal Government has joined the elephant!”
— One view, as delivered at last Thursday’s Pearcey Foundation Roundtable, National Broadband Network: A Platform for Economic Recovery? [18]
“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.”
— Theodore H. White
26 September, 2009
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
— 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer on the recipe for greatness
“Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
— Albert Einstein
“Huzzah! It’s that time again! Time for TechCrunch50: where thousands of struggling entrepreneurs spend three grand they can barely afford to watch fifty of their peers dancing like malnourished bears for the approbation of Jason Calacanis [19]! It’s like Christians and lions meets Satan’s own version of speed dating, with added Scoble! What’s not to love?”
— Paul Carr takes aim [20] at TechCrunch’s flagship annual event.
“If you are running a startup and you haven’t yet taken on the role of CTC (Chief Toilet Cleaner), then I would say that you are not the real deal!”
— Sahil Merchant on the roll-up-your-sleeves reality of entrepreneurship, in Why Chief Coffee Drinker is my most important entrepreneurial role [21].
“I have good news gentlemen. The rate of accelerating doom is decelerating.”
— Overheard: An Australian expat recounts talking to Silicon Valley VCs at the Telstra Business Awards.
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”
— Bob Hope.
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
— The truth, from author and Nobel Prize Laureate George Bernard Shaw.
“Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.”
— Jack Handey.
“I Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
— The trust-busting 26th US President, Theodore Roosevelt.
31 August, 2009
“I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.”
— The late English comedian Les Dawson on finding one’s groove.
“Above all, I insist at lunches, dinners and meetings in China that everyone keeps a sense of humour. Humour has a better chance of saving our planet than carbon sequestration or the UN.”
— Greg Rudd (brother of Prime Minister Kevin), who advises on investment and joint ventures for GPR Asia, based in Beijing.
“You say: “I’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur.”
Investor thinks: “So what… I’ve always wanted to be a professional golfer.”
You say: “I love to think of new ways to solve problems.”
Investor thinks: “Is this a high-school science fair?””
You say: “My goal is to build a world-class company.”
Investor thinks: “How about you ship and sell the first copy before we talk about world-class anything?”
— Guy Kawasaki on speaking to an investor.”
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
— Author and satirist Terry Pratchett.
“You don’t want another Enron? Here’s your law: If a company can’t explain in ONE SENTENCE what it does… it’s illegal.”
— US comedian Lewis Black on keeping it real.
“But what we SMEs need most of all is business! More than any amount of funding, the first customer for a startup R&D business is absolutely priceless. The most powerful stimulus a government could provide might be to create mini-markets with lower hurdles of winning that first modest customer, even in a proof-of-concept mode.”
— Stephen Wilson, Lockstep Technologies, Minister Carr wants to know how you would spend $196 million
“What’s the definition of a ‘commercialisation expert’? A public servant with an MBA.”
— Churchill Club founder Brendan Lewis touches a nerve [22].
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
— Dr Seuss
“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”
— White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too late and we reach it.”
— Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni on why it’s important to occasionally stretch yourself.
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
— The wisdom of Indira Gandhi.
The parallels between writing and golf, as expertly outlined in the passage below, apply equally to starting a business.
“Writers like to think that writing is like Arctic exploration or flying the Atlantic solo, but actually it’s more like golf. You’ve got to just do it and be happy. Some writers spend twenty minutes lining up a four-foot putt. Some writers pitch a tent on the green and stay for a week and brood about friction and energy and the gender of their putter. What’s the problem? Take your shot. It’s no shame to bogey. Just do it and have a good time. Don’t base your whole life on worrying about whether you’re any good or not. If you need to know, you shouldn’t be playing this game.”
— Garrison Keillor in Love Me [23] (1993).
“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”
— US author Gore Vidal putting success in context.
“Chris Anderson tells us about the future economy where everything is free. It already is, provided we don’t pay China back.”
— US satirist Stephen Colbert
“I’ve said to the government, as a hypothetical, if everybody who entered into a new superannuation policy had at the bottom of their application form a question that said: I would like up to two percent of my superannuation to be invested in emerging Australian businesses – tick yes or no – our problems would be over.”
— Geoff Mullins of VentureAxess, in The Entrepreneur vs. Venture Capitalist [24]
“If you aren’t feeling uncomfortable, you aren’t delegating enough.”
— A casual piece of wisdom overheard in Federation Square, Melbourne.
31 July, 2009
“IE8 is a big improvement over previous incarnations of Internet Explorer, but so is a husband who only beats you once a week instead of everyday.”
— Project manager and author Dustin Wax, The First 10 Free Apps to Install on a New Windows PC [25].
“If a 21-year-old uni grad with visions of grandeur and working for no pay for 14 hours every day in his parent’s spare room isn’t an entrepreneur, then he’s suspiciously close to being mentally insane. I’d like to think it’s the former!”
— David Ball, 2009 Anthill 30under30 [26] winner, on the definition of entrepreneurship
“I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.”
— Billionaire investor Warren Buffet on his taste for opportunities.
“The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset. The moment you earn your keep as a public speaker is when the room isn’t just right or the plane is late or the projector doesn’t work or the audience is tired or distracted. The best time to engage with an employee is when everything falls apart, not when you’re hitting every milestone. And everyone now knows that the best time to start a project is when the economy is lousy.”
— Seth Godin on what the Tour de France teaches us about business, in Winning on the uphills [27].
“If newspapers are named as such because they spread news and are distributed by being printed onto paper, does that make Anthill a newsscreen, a newsmail, a newsmonitor or something else?.”
— In a cheeky email to Anthill, Publicity Queen Sally Romano comments on the convergence of media. Our two cents? Digital natives don’t need to define channels. To them, they simply don’t exist.
“In any good company, there are no VIPs. All customers are VIPs.”
— US digital media maverick Jeff Jarvis on the new customer-centric culture.
“I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
— Woody Allen on the allure and reality of taking shortcuts.
“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.”
— The legendary French diplomat Talleyrand on leadership in practice.
“It’s easy to get more traffic. Just advertise you are giving away cash. That always gets them through the door. It’s the quality of the traffic that is important, not the quantity. A site with low traffic and high conversions is much more profitable than a high traffic site with a low conversion rate.”
— Jim Stewart bursting the bubble of web traffic junkies in All the traffic you can eat… is not a healthy diet [28].
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte [29]
“It took radio 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million.
It took television 13 years, the internet four, the iPod three.
And Facebook? Two! “
— We surely are living in exponential times [30].
“Stop watching TV. No really. If anything of interest happens in the world, it’ll be on Twitter first anyway. TV makes money from selling you how much stuff sucks (so that the advertisers can then sell you their products to take the suckyness away).”
— Leela Cosgrove, The next person who says the R word is getting slapped [31].
“Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It’s freedom from fear. It’s a billboard on the side of the road that screams reassurance that whatever you are doing is okay. You are okay.”
— The credo of fictional Manhattan advertising executive Don Draper in the US drama series Mad Men.
“Caffeine could be a viable treatment for established Alzheimer’s disease, and not simply a protective strategy.”
— Finally some good news! Next time you down that cup of Joe, you could be improving your memory [32], according to Neuroscientist Gary Arendash.
“It’s one of the most difficult things about business. And going to head-hunters isn’t always the right way. Particularly when you move into a new country and start from scratch, like Japan for example…. In the end we found it very difficult, so I pinched a Scottish diplomat out of the British Embassy and he’s turned out to be absolutely brilliant because the Japanese store buyers were left wondering what a Scottish diplomat was doing trying to sell them a vacuum cleaner.”
— British vacuum magnate James Dyson on the importance of finding effective managers. From Cleaning Up [33].
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
— Henry David Thoreau on being one’s self.
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
— Chinese proverb
“Entrepreneurs are measured by the success of what they leave behind. I used to think, ‘If my company goes belly up as soon as I leave, they really needed me’. But in reality, a good entrepreneur creates a business they work on, not in, that will survive them in every way.”
— Hitwise co-founder Adrian Giles on the kind of legacy all entrepreneurs should aspire to leave. Lunch with an Entrepreneur [34]
30 June, 2009
“Telling people what to think will always make them grumpy.”
— What’s true for satire is often true for business. Australian burlesque dancer Moira Finucane on ABC TV’s Sunday Arts [35] program.
“Only when we understand the customer at a deep, visceral level can we really build something that will thrill them.”
— Martin Hosking, Founder of Cool Company Awards winner RedBubble (Tunnel Talk – Building Online Marketplaces [36]).
“Ah… Jeff… You have 1,347 messages. ”
— Jeff Goldblum’s secretary, a short time ago.
“Just wanted to let you know that while you were away our company went into administration. But don’t worry. We then underwent a management buyout. Everything’s back to normal. Just wanted to make sure you got the news from me, in case you hear any rumours.”
— One half of a mobile phone conversation overheard yesterday at Parliament Station, Melbourne. (We do indeed live in interesting times.)
“Most VCs come from an M&A/ banking background, and haven’t actually wrapped their arms around their toilet bowl and vomited blood because they don’t know where the payroll is coming from. They’re generally not interested in playing in this space. It’s high risk and bloody hard work.”
— Trevor Presser, “Built to Flip [37]”
“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”
— Warren Buffet, investor and billionaire.
“If you ain’t the lead dog, the view never changes.”
— Lewis Grizzard on the rat race.
“SwineFlu your Clients!
Merlin’s Body Found – Magical Wizard Real!
Bondage Barbie – the Whips and Chains of Brand Enforcement
How a little green button made me $30,000 last month
Scandalous Publicity Stunt Sends CEO to Prison
Why Waste Time Swatting at Flies When You’re Being Burned at the Stake?
You need to keep your business intelligence in your pants
Babies on fire in lesbian pillow-fight car-chase alien invasion and shootout with local police”
— In our search for rabble-rousing bloggers [38], we asked applicants to submit a headline to make eyeballs pop. These were a few that definitely made us sit up (then question our sanity).
“When you get up to go to work, after three hours sleep and you don’t curse and you can’t wait, that’s when it’s right.”
— Sahil Merchant, founder of MagNation, on the joys [39] of start-up life.
“A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).”
— Today’s announcement by Twitter that it has postponed network maintenance downtime because the microblogging service is currently playing a critical role in the aftermath of the Iranian election.
Forget the hype (and the ocean of inane tweets). Twitter has arrived.
“Woe betide the organisation that promises its internal entrepreneurs freedom to fail then expects them to ask permission.”
— Liz Cassidy, Intrapreneurship: A guide to harnessing the power of entrepreneurs within organisations.
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
— Charles Lamb, celebrated English essayist (1775-1834), who was clearly an advocate of ‘Beer O’Clock’ well before his day.
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
— Bill Cosby
“Once you meet the individual, you might change your mind. We invest in people, not businesses. We want to see the eyeballs of the people we are going to invest in.”
— Michael Panaccio, Starfish Ventures, on what venture capitalists look for in a promising investment. The Buck Starts Here [40].
“Sorry, someone had to say it. Your products are predictable. Your insights are recycled. You don’t bring surprise with you when you enter a room. That’s why people are ignoring you. Which used to be fine, because you could just buy attention for your brand or your company or your sales efforts. But that half-price sale on attention is now over. The only path left is to lean out of the edge and become interesting, noteworthy and yes, remarkable.”
— Seth Godin, You’re Boring [41]
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
— Voltaire‘s celebrated attitude towards censorship.
“Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.”
— Currently # 4 on TOP 100 funniest one-liners on the internet! [42]
“The Australian economy has outperformed every other advanced economy in the March quarter, recording positive growth in the face of a savage global recession.”
— Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan, on the announcement today that Australia has narrowly avoided [43] falling into a technical recession.
“People don’t care about your business. They care about what you can do for them. They care even more if you’ve experienced the same kind of distress and challenges they’ve experienced. You just have to have the balls to share it with them.”
— Ben Angel, “What the original Material Girl has that you don’t!” [44].
“Create more value than you capture. All successful companies do this. Once they start capturing more value than they create, their market position erodes, and someone displaces them. It may take a while but it happens eventually.”
— Tim “Web 2.0″ O’Reilly [45] stripping business down to essentials.
28 May, 2009
“You’re gonna miss us when we’re gone!” has never been much of a business model.”
— Clay Shirky on the flawed logic [46] of some newspaper executives.
“My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.”
— Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter.
“May you live in interesting times.”
— Ancient Chinese curse.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Apple’s Steve Jobs on priorities.
“In a tornado, even a turkey can fly.”
— Guy Kawasaki on happier times.
“Everybody has a plan… until they get punched in the face.”
— Risk management, according to the wisdom of Mike Tyson.
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[1] HeatedGroundPhotography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heatedground/1741761389/
[2] The business of being… FunkySexyCool: http://anthillonline.com/the-business-of-being-funkysexycool/
[3] Is optimism killing your business or career?: http://anthillonline.com/is-optimism-killing-your-business-or-career/
[4] Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s formula for minimising entrepreneurial regrets: http://anthillonline.com/amazon-founder-jeff-bezoss-formula-for-entrepreneurial-regret-minimisation/
[5] Head Case: How I almost lost my mind trying to understand my brain: http://www.amazon.com/Head-Case-Almost-Trying-Understand/dp/0060594721
[6] Clive Thompson: http://twitter.com/pomeranian99
[7] @SterlingBond: http://twitter.com/stirlingbond
[8] Online Marketing By Design: http://anthillonline.com/debate-rages-at-mumbrellaanthill-online-marketing-by-design-in-sydney-last-night-mumhill-feed/
[9] The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/100423
[10] If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it: http://anthillonline.com/if-you-cant-measure-it-you-cant-manage-it/
[11] sharable: http://anthillonline.com/why-seth-godin-is-the-master-of-sharable-anthills-first-rule-of-online-marketing/
[12] Five similarities between forming habits and deep customer development: http://anthillonline.com/five-similarities-between-forming-habits-and-deep-customer-development/
[13] How to make your message pop (by killing animated polar bears).: http://anthillonline.com/how-to-make-your-message-pop-by-killing-animated-polar-beers/
[14] Diary of an entrepreneur raising capital: The dark art of valuations.: http://anthillonline.com/diary-of-an-entrepreneur-raising-capital-the-dark-art-of-valuations/
[15] Outsourcing little tips: http://startupblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/outsourcing-little-tips/
[16] Startup School: http://www.startupschool.com.au/
[17] tweet : http://anthill.taguchimail.com/link/2131489z17324887/1475/3/
[18] National Broadband Network: A Platform for Economic Recovery?: http://www.pearcey.org.au/index.php/2009_National_Pearcey_Event
[19] Jason Calacanis: http://anthillonline.com/google-killer/
[20] takes aim: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/12/wittc50-want-me-to-ignore-the-ridiculous-conflict-of-interest-and-write-a-glowing-review-of-tc50-theres-an-app-for-that/
[21] Why Chief Coffee Drinker is my most important entrepreneurial role: http://anthillonline.com/why-chief-coffee-drinker-is-my-most-important-entrepreneurial-role/
[22] touches a nerve: http://anthillonline.com/minister-carr-wants-to-know-how-you-would-spend-196-million/
[23] Love Me: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200307/keillor
[24] The Entrepreneur vs. Venture Capitalist: http://anthillonline.com/the-entrepreneur-vs-venture-capitalist-2/
[25] The First 10 Free Apps to Install on a New Windows PC: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/the-first-10-free-apps-to-install-on-a-new-windows-pc.html
[26] 30under30: http://anthillonline.com/category/resources/30-under-30/
[27] Winning on the uphills: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/07/winning-on-the-uphills.html
[28] All the traffic you can eat… is not a healthy diet: http://anthillonline.com/all-the-traffic-you-can-eat-is-not-a-healthy-diet/
[29] Napoleon Bonaparte: http://anthillonline.com/ant-bytes-10/
[30] exponential times: http://anthillonline.com/did-you-know-float-into-friday/
[31] The next person who says the R word is getting slapped: http://anthillonline.com/the-next-person-who-says-the-R-word-is-getting-slapped/
[32] improving your memory: http://anthillonline.com/research-caffeine-consumption-can-reverse-alzheimers/
[33] Cleaning Up: http://anthillonline.com/james-dyson-cleaning-up/
[34] Lunch with an Entrepreneur: http://anthillonline.com/adrian-giles-co-founder-hitwise/
[35] Sunday Arts: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/sundayarts/
[36] Tunnel Talk – Building Online Marketplaces: http://anthillonline.com/building-online-marketplaces/
[37] Built to Flip: http://anthillonline.com/built-to-flip/
[38] search for rabble-rousing bloggers: http://anthillonline.com/anthill-seeks-part-time-rabble-rouser/
[39] joys: http://anthillonline.com/how-to-succeed-in-2007/
[40] The Buck Starts Here: http://anthillonline.com/the-buck-starts-here/
[41] You’re Boring: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/youre-boring.html
[42] TOP 100 funniest one-liners on the internet!: http://www.onelinerz.net/top-100-funny-one-liners/
[43] narrowly avoided: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25581149-12377,00.html
[44] “What the original Material Girl has that you don’t!”: http://anthillonline.com/what-the-original-material-girl-has-that-you-dont/
[45] Tim “Web 2.0″ O’Reilly: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/06/why-arrington-is-wrong-about-y.html
[46] flawed logic: http://http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
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