Michael Ellsberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?
-- Michael Ellsberg

#Giving #Advantage #Formal
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who gives you responsibility and mentorship; while traveling; while leading a cause, movement, or charity; while writing a novel or composing a poem or crafting a song; while interning, apprenticing, or volunteering; while playing a sport or immersing yourself in a language; while starting a business; and now, while watching a TED talk or taking a Khan Academy class.
-- Michael Ellsberg

#Sports #Dog #Song
In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.
-- Michael Ellsberg

#Skills #Marketing #Three
If you can get people who don't know about you to know about you (marketing), and you can convert them into customers (sales), and once they're customers, you can lead them from point A to point B, you can accomplish anything on the planet
-- Michael Ellsberg

#People #Marketing #Planets
The essence of building your own brand. People having heard of you - and having a positive impression - before you've even met them. If you can create that effect, doors open for you. A close second, if that's not possible, is people getting a good impression of o very quickly when they Google you
-- Michael Ellsberg

#Doors #Essence #People
You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs.
-- Michael Ellsberg

#Mba #Ceo
If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.
-- Michael Ellsberg

#Jobs #Attitude #Educational
Great brand, no resume - no problem. Great resume, no brand? Welcome to position #347 of the stack of five hundred equally great resumes
-- Michael Ellsberg

#Welcome #Problem #Hundred

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

Michael Ellsberg famous quotes

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