Joe Polish Quotes

If you want to build an incredible network, send 10 handwritten postcards every single day, five days a week. This is not that hard once you get the momentum going, because it's a lot easier to maintain momentum than it is to create it.

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

For those that get it, no explanation is necessary. For those that don't, no explanation will do. Trying to convince people of anything... to use Dean Jackson's marketing line: a compelling offer is 10 times more powerful than a convincing argument.

The people who win biggest stop competing and start building ecosystems where everyone multiplies.

Intimacy is exploring a shared safe place. Abuse destroys it. And addictions are what we do to make ourselves feel good when we don't have a safe place.

Think of selling as influence. Think of marketing as storytelling.

Most people don't use social media. They're used by social media.

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

Wherever there's anxiety, there's opportunity.

There is no relationship between being good and getting paid. The #1 job of the Entrepreneur is to get paid.

Success traps are harder than failure traps. Your identity is tied to past wins. True character shows how you treat those with less power.

The only thing worse than singing the wrong note is singing it louder.

If you want word of mouth marketing, you've got to give people something worth talking about.

I wanted to create my own school that people would pay to attend, but it would never cost them anything to be there, because of what comes out of it.

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?