How To Get The Same Amount of Knowledge As A Book, In About 3-5 Minutes.

March 11, 2008

Being able to read, learn and study from books that teach us how to be stronger, wiser, and better are so valuable. Lately I have failed to get a lot of reading done, it has been a lot of focusing on programing applications instead. But I can still find a way to get knowledge in, and one of the ways I have enjoyed to gain new knowledge is simplify by reading a few very meaningful and insightful quotes from the most successful people in the world. A lot of chapters in books are normally to summarize a point, and sometimes the longer chapter does help up the lesson being taught. Although I still believe books are a great source of information, sometimes some of the most profound learning can be read in 2-3 seconds. Let me share some simply powerful information to you, and I think you’ll agree, the information is valuable, compact, powerful information in a sentence or two. Enjoy, here are some of the best ones I’ve found.

• “The real money’s in the shovels, not the gold.” – Samuel Brannan (1819-1889)

• The first publicist of the California Gold Rush bought every shovel in
  San Francisco before he ran through the street shouting, “Gold! Gold!
  Gold from the American River!” Cisco Systems has become a $32B company
  using a similar strategy, selling the routers and switches that form
  the backbone of the Internet.

• “Cut out the middleman.” – Aaron Montgomery Ward (1844-1913)

• Ward founded the world’s first mail-order business, Montgomery Ward
  Co., in 1872. Countless other catalog-based companies have followed in
  his footsteps, including information-age retailers like Amazon.com.

• “Sell the razors cheap and the blades dear.” – King Camp Gillette (1855-1932)

• Gillette’s loss leader strategy has been replicated by countless
  companies, Hewlett-Packard makes billions by peddling $30 ink
  cartridges for its $100 printers. And while Sony loses money on its
  PlayStations, it cleans up on the games.

• “Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton
  gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir
  Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble,
  explaining later, ‘I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not
  the madness of men.’ If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir
  Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion:
  For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.” – Warrent Buffet

• “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do” – Andrew Carnegie

• “I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.” – John D. Rockefeller

• “The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets” – John D. Rockefeller

• “The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a
  complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have
  to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an
  incredible degree.” – Bill Gates

• I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If
  today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about
  to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days
  in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs

• “Tis better to be alone than in bad company” – George Washington

• “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton

• “There is only one boss, and that is the Customer, and he can fire
  everybody from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money
  somewhere else.” – Sam Walton

• “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.“ – Jim Rohn

• “One of the highest forms of human maturity is accepting full responsibility for our lives” – Jim Rohn

• “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

• “If I could live all over again, I would buy every square inch of Manhattan. “ – John Jacob Astor (First Millionaire in the United States)

• “The first hundred thousand — that was hard to get, but afterwards it was easy to make more.” – John Jacob Astor

• ““The two most important requirements for major success are: first,
  being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something
  about it.”” – Ray Kroc – McDonalds

• “Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.” – J.P. Morgan

• “When you expect things to happen – strangely enough – they do happen.” – J.P. Morgan

• “The major reason for setting a goal is for what it
  makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the
  far greater value than what you get.
  “ – Jim Rohn

• “Why is it with all the information available today on how to be successful in small business, so few people really are?” – Michael Gerber – E-Myth

• “If You Shall Search, You Shall Find.” – The Bible

Enjoy? Find More all over the place, I’m going to try what Steve Jobs does everyday from here on out. WikiQuotes.

Remember: Knowledge isn’t power, knowledge applied is power.

It’s all about applying the good ideas, if you found one good one here today that you like, use it, if you just use ONE idea from here, and actually implement it, you are going to do great. The rate at which we implement new ideas that are good, will be a major determining factor on how well we do in life.

Speed of implementation, not just implementation, but how fast we gather new ideas and implement them. Key.