Time management for entrepreneurs:
“You must systematically, agressively divest yourself of those activities you do not do well, do not do happily, or find routine, so as to systematically invest your time (and talent, knowledge, know-how, and other resources) in those things you do extraordionarily well, enjoy doing, and find intellectually stimulating.”
– Dan Kennedy
If I’m slinging other people’s wisdom today, here’s the best business quote I’ve come across in ages:
“It doesn’t matter what your competitors are doing. The only thing that matters is if they are keeping you from getting to your client.”
— Gerry Lemberg (investor in Apple, Intel & Oracle)
As it’s his birthday today:
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. ”
– Ben Franklin
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
– Thornton Wilder
“Never fuck your hero. It’s all downhill from there. ”
– Sarah Brown
“Traditions are like hymens – once they’re broken, you’re fucked.”
– Colin Spoelman
“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
-H.L. Mencken, Epitaph
“This nicely naughty indie is full of unexpected pleasures…a feel-good movie about feeling good.”
– New York Times
“One of the wittiest and most intoxicating sex comedies to come along in years”
– Oakland Tribune
“It can’t help but leave you with a good feeling.”
– Los Angeles Daily News
“Posey and Rudd are the real deal.”
– LA Weekly
“Danny DeVito steals the show.”
– Los Angeles Times
“Hilarious – and in all the appropriate places.”
– Ain’t It Cool News
“Satire is awfully hard to pull off, but screenwriter Adam Wierzbianski exhibits a flair for it.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“Blithely blurs the line between risquÈ and raunchy.”
– Variety
“Your summer film has finally arrived.”
– Cleveland Plain Dealer
Two quotes from the past 24 hours that totally made my week:
“You know today is our three year friend-aversary? That’s three wasted years I totally could have spent on someone else.”
– Sarah Brown
“Who is this ‘Joshua Newman’ asshole?”
– Danny DeVito
“In New York I feel plugged into a strong alternating current of hope and despair.”
– Ted Morgan