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“What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.”
“My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school.”
“What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.”
“I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.”
“We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.'”
“The problem with a lot of marketing advice is that the examples they use are not exactly typical. It's hard for businesses, particularly smaller businesses, to relate to the bold innovations of companies like Apple or Tesla.”
“If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.”
“When I lived in Louisiana, 'Django Unchained' was shot at my neighbor's house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym.”
“In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I'd been scouted for the job because of a blog I'd started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company.”
“Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.”
“People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.”
“Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.”
“When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power.”
“No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own.”
“Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.”
“Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.”
“When I dropped out of school at 19 to start my first job in Hollywood, I didn't know anything, and I had no idea where I'd end up. Thankfully, I was attached to some smart and forgiving people who let me learn under them.”
“If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?”
“Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.”
“You can't believe your own marketing.”