The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word No.
The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word No.

Similar Shane Parrish quotes:
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- If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
- Bad timekeeping will suck the life out of your bank account.
- Life can be so easy once we stop trying so hard to complicate it.
- Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success.
- We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.
- Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.
- You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.
- A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn’t last.
- You don’t get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
- When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
- Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
- Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.
- I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
- I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
- if you begin, you win.
- Passion, Patience, and Persistence are the ingredients to be an entrepreneur.
- The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Living is different from just existing.
- The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.