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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- I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem.
- There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
- Fear is the enemy of success.
- Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.
- I think all of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you’re successful.
- The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.
- Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales, and we do it anyway.
- My heart is set on my dreams, I persevere and I make a difference
- You know if you make a customer unhappy, they won’t tell five friends, they’ll tell 5,000 friends.
- Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
- Every day is your entire life.
- When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
- You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
- Business Plans: It’s about the Process, Not the Product
- The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
- Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
- Always make your future bigger than your past.
- Actually, I’m an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
- Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.