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“Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be. Being able to read what people want. Putting yourself in the right place where information is flowing freely and interesting new juxtapositions can be seen. But you can save yourself a lot of time by working on the right thing. Working hard, even, if that’s what you like to do”

“The challenge in growing a business is in building assets daily, and doing it for less money than those assets end up being worth. Your expenses should generate assets”

“I’m always surprised when people set aside a period of time to build links to their website. Link building is far too important not to spend at least 24 hours a day doing it”

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”

“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”

“Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.”

“Almost from their birth in 1971, microprocessors experienced steep inverted pricing. The chip’s pricing plunge is called Moore’s Law, after Gordon Moore, the Intel engineer who first observed the amazing, steady increase in computer power per dollar. Moore’s Law states that computer chips are halving in price, or doubling in power every 18 months”

“A while back Johnnie pointed out to me that customers now have the technological advantage over companies. Anyone who boots up their corporate laptop and then goes to make a cup of tea while the processor sorts through a million security patches and firewall protocols, will understand this”

“Rather be dead than cool”

“I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.”