10 Powerful Quotes That Made Me A Millionaire
10 Powerful Quotes That Made Me A Millionaire
Post From StartupCamp By Dale-Partridge
Make Your Passion Your Profession
With an overwhelming access to knowledge, this generation often finds itself ten feet wide and one inch deep. Knowing a little about everything but never enough about one thing to matter. We have no shortage of words; rather, we have a shortage of the right words.
Poetry has been defined as the best words in the best order. But I believe it goes beyond a poem.
The right words listed in concert and color can articulate a comprehensive and deep meaning in just a few characters. A meaning that can fasten your fears to the floor and allow you to step into progress.
Anchors that keep us straight and hold us tight – almost like an injection of clarity and control for our most uncertain of times.
Ultimately, words are the stones that bridge the gap to our furthest destinations. From incomprehension and overcoming indifference to closing a sale and believing in God.
Words make up how we think, what we know, and who we become.
But the right words change your life. They can change your story.
Here are the words that have changed mine.
1. "Never get too busy making a living that you forget to make a life."
Who Said It?: My Grandmother
How It Has Helped Me: Getting lost in something you love often results in getting lost in general. We live in a culture that measures our success by how much money we make rather than the fullness of our lives.
Over the 13 years I've spent building businesses, I've learned the months that feel weighted to one side typically follow a season spent living in the absence of this quote.
2. "Speak to people how they need to hear it, not how you want to say it."
Who Said It?: My Mentor
How It Has Helped Me: Empathy is a difficult virtue to master. As an entrepreneur, the best marketing is performed by those who can step into the customer's pain. To put words to their emotions and to create products that solve their most trying problems. As leaders, we must not forget that thoughtfulness is the most effective form of communication.
3. "Your greatest weakness is often the overextension of your greatest strength."
Who Said It?: Jason Benham
How It Has Helped Me: I'm a natural teacher. Speaking, selling, and convincing others is almost instinctive to me. But far too many times I've been kicked in the leg by my wife for not shutting my mouth.
As I've matured, I'm learning that the overuse of our inherent gifting can backfire. The secret is learning to take it to the very edge, and stop.
4. "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Who Said It?: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How It Has Helped Me: A designer is someone who can make something more beautiful than someone else with the same tools at the same cost. Beauty is my secret weapon. But the more I practice design, the more I realize its purpose is not to draw our eyes to many things, but one thing.
So whenever I dislike the aesthetics of something I'm working on, whether it's landscaping my backyard or designing a new website, my first step is to take something away.
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