Top 15 Josh Kaufman Quotes

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.

You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.

Whoever best describes the problem is the one most likely to solve it. —

If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.

Every time your customers purchase from you, they’re deciding that they value what you have to offer more than they value anything else their money could buy at that moment.

The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn’t replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough.

Retired general Colin Powell famously advocates collecting half of the information available, then making a decision, even though your information is clearly incomplete.

Focus on Options, not issues, and you’ll be able to handle any situation life throws at you.

Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.

Ideas are cheap — what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.

There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. — SAM WALTON, FOUNDER OF WALMART A

7. Make dedicated time for practice. The time you spend acquiring a new skill must come from somewhere. Unfortunately, we tend to want to acquire new skills and keep doing many of the other activities we enjoy, like watching TV, playing video games, et cetera. I’ll get around to it, when I find the time, we say to ourselves. Here’s the truth: “finding” time is a myth. No one ever “finds” time for anything, in the sense of miraculously discovering some bank of extra time, like finding a twenty-dollar bill you accidentally left in your coat pocket. If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.

If you want an audience, start a fight. — IRISH PROVERB