Details Make the Difference, Yet Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication

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Learn why Jack Dorsey, the co-founder, and CEO of Twitter and Square writes, “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.” – Lou Holtz (The former American football player, coach, and analyst who served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary (1969–1971), North Carolina State University (1972–1975), the New York Jets (1976), the University of Arkansas (1977–1983), the University of Minnesota (1984–1985), the University of Notre Dame (1986–1996), and the University of South Carolina (1999–2004), compiling a career record of 249–132–7. Holtz’s 1988 Notre Dame team went 12–0 with a victory in the Fiesta Bowl and was the consensus national champion. Holtz is the only college football coach to lead six different programs to bowl games and the only coach to guide four different programs to the final top 20 rankings. In 2005, Holtz joined ESPN as a college football analyst. On May 1, 2008, Holtz was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame

NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.” – Jack Dorsey (The co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder / CEO of Square. As of today, Jack now has an estimated net worth of approximately $5 billion)

5:44 –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mP9OmOFxc4

17:00 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx46su211io

NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them — those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn.” – Robert Greene (The best-selling author of Mastery, The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, etc.)

5:46 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhFXYPHlMg4

NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” – Steve Jobs (The co-founder of Apple, the founder of NeXT, and the former CEO of PIXAR)

Steve Jobs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70gxbSMdQKs

Don’t Listen to 99% of People, Because They Are Wrong

NOTABLE QUOTABLE – “You can please some of the people, some of the time.” – Steve Jobs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

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