Joe Polish Quotes

Whatever is important to you… I encourage you to put WORDS to it.

Wherever there's anxiety, there's opportunity.

Most people don't use technology; technology uses them. Most people don't use social media; they are used by it. Most people don't own the things they own; the stuff owns them.

Selling is what you do when you're on the phone and face to face with somebody. Marketing is what you do to get somebody on the phone or face to face with you, properly positioned, so by the time you're talking to them, they're pre-interested, pre-motivated, pre-qualified, predisposed to do business with you.

A lot of people miss the "strategic byproducts" as they're pursuing their goals. There's so much possibility in those things. Notice them.

Whatever you fear and don't face controls you. Whatever you fear and face, you control.

Curiosity is our gift, but it's also our kryptonite. FOMO is one of our worst enemies. If you become aware of that and you build in mechanisms to address it, you can transform your business pretty quickly.

"I'm grateful to have you in my life." More people need to hear that.
Don't lose the muscle of genuine human connection.
The people who consistently reach out are the people nobody forgets.

Industries profit from stress. Humanity grows through meaning.
Some industries thrive on dysfunction. Human potential thrives on alignment.

Jealousy is wanting what someone else has. Envy is wanting what someone else has -- and not wanting them to have it.

Identify your current fears and threats because success hinges on overcoming both real and psychological dangers by leveraging your strengths.

We have the curse of knowledge, where we can be so absorbed in something and actually assume that people understand what we teach, what we do, what we offer -- and they don't. An ad is brand new for someone that's seeing it for the first time.

Stanford professor BJ Fogg calls it B=MAP. Behavior equals Motivation, Ability, and Prompts.

The question isn't whether you have habits. It's whether your MAP is building the life you want.

You can sit next to the lake or next to the ocean or wherever the fish may be, but if you don't go fishing, if you don't throw in the bait -- and it has to be bait that the fish are going to bite on -- it's not going to work. People often wonder, why is no one giving me business? Well, first off, are you fishing? Secondly, do you even know what you're fishing for?

The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety, it's connection. Addiction can be a response to trauma.