Great Insights from Business Book Daily Readers


“Self-awareness - knowing your own emotions and reactions to scenarios, whether positive or challenging - is an underrated superpower in business. That self-knowledge and hopefully humility will allow you to better interact with your teammates, customers, and partners alike.”
—Ben Jacobs, investor and founder of multiple startups (find him on LinkedIn)


“Decisions are like pedal strokes on a bike, once you make one, it creates momentum in a certain direction, and each successive decision makes it less likely you’ll want to stop and turn around. So before I start riding, I try take an extra moment to decide where I really want to go.”
—Tivan Amour, founder and CEO of Upwind


“Try to be counterfactual: do something only you know how to do, or only you are incentivized to do. If you can find an area important to society that has very little competition for some reason, there can be a surprising amount of opportunity and it can be surprisingly fun. Leverage your unique niche insights and don't assume that if something is worth doing, someone would have already done it.”
—Adam Marblestone, co-founder and CEO of Convergent Research