“People ask me how I funded my business,” he said. “I tell them first I sold one CD, which gave me enough… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“By leveraging a radical change to your normal environment, coupled perhaps with a significant investment of effort or money, all dedicated toward… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Money is a neutral indicator of value. By aiming to make money, you’re aiming to be valuable.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“I have this principle about money that overrides my other life rules,” he said. “Do what people are willing to pay for.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“If you’re struggling to raise money for an idea, or are thinking that you will support your idea with unrelated work, then… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“using money as a “neutral indicator of value”—a way of determining whether or not you have enough career capital to succeed with… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“the importance of ability. The things that make a great job great, I discovered, are rare and valuable. If you want them in your… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“many software companies now deploy the Scrum project management methodology, which replaces a lot of this ad hoc messaging with regular, highly structured, and… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“when paying more than $1,000 a day to write the chapter in a suite of an old hotel down the street from a Hogwarts-style… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“study by Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow. In this study, a group of management consultants were asked to disconnect for a full day… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“if it’s rare and valuable, it’s not easy to get. This insight brought me into the world of performance science, where I encountered the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Here’s the routine: Once a week I require myself to summarize in my “bible” a paper I think might be relevant to my research.… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Not long into his 2010 TED talk on creativity and leadership, Derek Sivers plays a video clip of a crowd at an outdoor concert.… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“Kirk’s path to American Treasures was incremental. He didn’t decide out of nowhere that he wanted to host a television show and then work… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
