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" When I lived in Louisiana, 'Django Unchained' was shot at my neighbor's house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym. "

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" It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home. "

" The greats - they protect their sleep because it's where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when they hit their limits. They don't let the creep of sleep deprivation undermine their judgment. "

" If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error. "

" Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games. "

" Growth hackers don't tolerate waste. "

" Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way. "

" In Los Angeles and other cities, being around immigrants is inspiring. They are touching the American Dream and reminding you how much you take it for granted. "

" Everyone faces adversity. "

" Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than 'creative' and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry. "

" If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four. "

" In every job and position, there are valuable lessons to be learned. Even in a nasty, abusive, toxic workplace, you're being taught precisely how not to run an organization. "

" The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one. "

" Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it. "

" My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself. "

" Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have - most of the time. It means you're doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it's usually better than the alternative of obscurity. "

" Reddit is like any democratic form of government - unless carefully guarded by its leaders and members, its trusts and privileges can be and often are abused. "

" When I dropped out of school at 19 to start my first job in Hollywood, I didn't know anything, and I had no idea where I'd end up. Thankfully, I was attached to some smart and forgiving people who let me learn under them. "

" Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols. "

" The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial. "

" As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front. "

" Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users. "

" Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them. "

" Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever. "

" If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you. "

" Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart. "

" I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to doing the sales and marketing. So when I see someone doing it wrong and giving bad advice, I do my best to help - even when they're not my clients. "

" Growth hacking isn't some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard. "

" The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging. "

" I took the 'Seinfeld' tour of New York once - and if I think about it too hard, my brain explodes. "

" My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. "