Quotes from Day 2 at Altitude

Another great day at Altitude. Here are the quotes from the day that Eben highlighted:

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” - Sun Tzu

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an opportunity.” - Benjamin Disraeli

“The essence of genious is to know what to overlook.” - William James

“It is better to be first than it is to be better.” - Al Ries and Jack Trout

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

“Data is most valuable at the point of origin. The value of data is directly related to its timeliness.” - Lawrence Miller

“When you have mastered the numbers you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” - Harold Greene

I actually got more work done today than I do in a normal day in the office with 88 emails sent and a number of key projects worked on.

Quotes from Today at Altitude

Eben Pagan has used some powerful quotes today to begin each Altitude session. They were:

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon the renunciation of instinct.” - Sigmund Freud

“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” - Peter Drucker

“I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.” - John D. Rockefeller

“Never contract a friendship with a man who is not better than thyself.” - Confucius

“I work with people I like, admire, and trust.” - Warren Buffett

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process you don’t know what you’re doing.” - W. Edward Deming

“Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company.” - Bill Gates

At Get Altitude Conference in LA This Week

I am at Eben Pagan’s Get Altitude Conference this week in Los Angeles recommended to me by my friend Cameron Johnson a couple months ago. The majority of the attendees are CEOs and entrepreneurs who run companies between $1 million and $10 million in annual sales. The program is broken up into the sections of You, Your Market, Your Marketing, Your People, and Your Systems. I will be blogging from the event during the event and letting you know what I think about it. I have three pages of action items from the Day 1 content so far, so it’s off to a good start.

I’ve run into Carlos Garcia from Traffic Tactics and Jesse Lear from Young Wealth Weekly.

Eben runs a 85 person $25 million per year company called Double Your Dating, which is the category leader in the dating advice space, which ensures humorous anecdotes constantly flow through the advice. One panelist just quipped:

“Speaking of getting off, these chairs are really interesting for the bum.”