The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur./ That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.
—Hugh Macleod
The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago./ Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.
—Hugh Macleod
Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it./ It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.
—Hugh Macleod
If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.
—Hugh Macleod
The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children.
—Hugh Macleod