Ben Casnocha Quotes

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

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.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

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.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

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

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.

If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.