Ben Casnocha famous quotes

04-17-2025

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Randomness
If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Ideas #Argument #Metaphor
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Men #Talking #People
It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
-- Ben Casnocha

#School #Two #Years
Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Teenager #Sometimes #Distinction
Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Long #Goal #Limits
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Writing #Entrepreneur #Diaries
I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Maps #Dots #Bigs
I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Basketball #School #Three
I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Range #Broads #Interest
I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Want #Normal
The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Smart #People #Dumb
If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, youâ€™re not accomplishing very much.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Doe #Citing #Decrease
Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Book #Reading #Talking
Iâ€™m skeptical of passive learning. If you donâ€™t write down what youâ€™re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?
-- Ben Casnocha

#Writing #Odds #Hearing
Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.
-- Ben Casnocha

#Thumbs #Skeptical

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