I’m delighted to bring you this little confirmation of ‘love first, money second’ from Seth Godin today:
“Woz wasn’t looking to make a lot of money when he invented the Apple computer, and Nolan Bushnell certainly didn’t imagine he was creating the video game industry when he invented Pong. Cory and the rest of the boingboing team had no revenue for years, and Digg and Yahoo! and dozens of other key websites were started without an eye on profit, never mind revenue. The same thing is true for Julia Child and Gene Roddenberry and Dean Kamen.
In fact, the more I think about it, the more it seems that pioneers are almost never in it for the money. The smart ones figure out how to take a remarkable innovation and turn it into a living (or a bigger than big payout) but not the other way around. I think the reason is pretty obvious: when you try to make a profit from your innovation, you stop innovating too soon. You take the short payout because it’s too hard to stick around for the later one…”
“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
Johnny Carson
1925-2005, Talk Show Host and Entertainer
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc (would there be french fries??)
Andrea
Judy – THANKS.
Andrea, THANKS. Good finds….Great minds…
Hmmm . . .
I just listened to a teleconference where the host outlined how you could make $21,000 your first month. (All you have to do is find 10 people who will sign up on the $5,500 package!)
I wonder how many people we’d get to sign up if we told them they’d be working for free?
Actually, it’s not even working for free, since you have to “buy your own pencils.” So, it’s more like you’re paying to work.