Dickie Bush Quotes

One of the most underrated reasons for starting a business is it helps you realize you are the bottleneck to growth

If you're broke you should not follow your passion unless your passion is becoming not broke.

Reasons to tweet:

1. Refine ideas -> every essay I write starts as a tweet. 280-characters is the ultimate creative restraint.

2. Create a learning flywheel -> learn, share, discuss, repeat.

3. Attract like-minded people -> show people I see the world the same way they do.

Saying you don't have time to write is like saying you don't have time to learn.

The best "writing" is a byproduct of following your curiosity and making sense of it for yourself.

Bad copywriting:

• Here's my product
• Here's what it does
• Here's what's so good about it

Good copywriting:

• Here's your problem
• Here's the benefit of solving it
• Here's why what you've tried has failed
• And by the way here's a product that will help you solve it

The easiest way to get ahead in life is to start writing.

Every day. 90 focused minutes. Taking one idea that’s in your head and putting it out into the world.

Waking up the next day and doing it again.

Staying committed even if growth is slow. Looking back 12 months later and seeing a massive library that will pay you dividends for years.

5 things worth spending money on:

1. Speed
2. Education
3. Convenience
4. Performance
5. Memory Dividends

If it doesn’t fall into one of these categories, it does not produce a positive return.

The top idea in your mind is where your mind will wander if it's left to wander.

Make sure the idea that keeps popping up is the one you want to keep popping up.

Millions of dollars are spent on diets.

Very few dollars on information diets.

• Sugar leads to diabetes of the body.
• The internet leads to diabetes of the brain.
• Glucose monitors help manage our food diet.

We need something similar to monitor our information diet.

You are not the sum of the five people you surround yourself with.

You are the product.

Being around the right people doesn't lead to linear growth.

It leads to exponential growth.

The operating system for the 21st-century internet entrepreneur:

1. Start sharing ideas
2. Attract like-minded people
3. Figure out their problems
4. Build products to solve their problems
5. Extract proof you've solved their problem
6. Document/share your process along the way

I've found that anxiety is a signal for action.

Rather than letting it hunt you down, probe deeper into these feelings. Find what is uncertain or what you’re failing to communicate.

Take control over the parts you can, and DO SOMETHING.

"I just don't feel like writing today." said the professional writer who proceeded to sit down and write anyway.

If you spent half as many hours taking action as you did thinking about taking action, you would be in a better spot

Reminder to self: be aggressively patient.

Execute relentlessly in the short-term. But zoom out to let those efforts compound.

Impatience with actions. Patience with results.