Ben Casnocha Quotes
- If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
- I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?
- Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no…
- If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.
- The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
- Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
- I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.
- I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.
- I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.
- I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
- I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest…
- Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.
- Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
- It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I…
- Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce…