76 Quotes by Scott Berkun


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    The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they’re wrong... Until they come face to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, and resilient enough to endure the thinly veiled intellectual abuse they dish out during debate, they’re never forced to question their ability to defend bad ideas.

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    ...remote work, and many other perks [..], will work or fail because of the company culture, not because of the perk itself.

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    Taking responsibility for situations, regardless of who caused them, always helps to expedite resolving.

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    The mystery for why some people you know succeed or fail in life is how courageous they are in pulling people aside and how effective they are in those private conversations we never see.

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    I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

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    Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

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