“Deliverables are the sum total of the goals of a nation's Knowledge Economy.”
Source: Longevitize!: Essays on the Science, Philosophy & Politics of Longevity
“The numbers should speak for themselves, but they don’t. Growth metrics are the misunderstood teenagers of the tech world with murky intentions.”
Source: Design-Driven Growth: Strategy & Case Studies For Product Shapers
“Don't shoot your shot, without testing your aim”
“Storytelling doesn't mean you go into other peoples world. It means you bring them into yours”
“A startup founder is like a conductor of an orchestra, initially playing every instrument.
Whilst playing the instruments also finding talented people to take over each instrument and raise $ to buy better instruments.
All whilst ensuring the crowd doesn't leave and grows!”
“Paper gains do not equal cash on cash returns”
“The venture capitalist investor, the private equity investor, the power player’s power player will beg to get in on a potential unicorn, going-through-the-roof, start-up company.”
Source: Negotiate Like a CEO: What to Look Out for and How to Keep Yourself From Getting Screwed in Employment, Business and the Entrepreneurial World.
“Daring greatly’ requires nothing less than a cleansing of the heart—or what the Desert Elders called ‘purity of heart.’ My best stab at what they meant by this is what I call wholeheartedness. This means we are ‘all in.’ We no longer hold anything back. We can contrast ‘all in’ with ‘half-hearted.’ Purity of heart is unwavering commitment and resolve, void of duplicity.”
Source: Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers
“In startups, if your flywheels aren't turning, you aint earning.”
“I watched the cheese melt in the microwave—along with the surrounding plastic. I forgot to take it out of its package before use, just like my golf game.”
Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear