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Aaron Fossas

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ADDO Creative Consultancy // Former Cincinnati Reds Pitcher

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I had a singular dream my entire life. To play Major League Baseball. In 2019, I retired from professional baseball while in Triple A with the Cincinnati Reds. One step away from reaching a 20+ year dream. What did I learn while giving up a lifelong dream? (A thread…)


you need three things to create a successful company: to gather great people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible (Graham)


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This was one of my favorite conversations that I've had in my entire life. Todd's intensity had me absolutely wired. A few valuable insights from our conversation: -How Todd’s operating principle — “I've always believed in doing one thing and do it better than anybody else”…

davidsenra's tweet image. This was one of my favorite conversations that I've had in my entire life. 

Todd's intensity had me absolutely wired. 

A few valuable insights from our conversation: 

-How Todd’s operating principle — “I've always believed in doing one thing and do it better than anybody else”…

wisdom is understanding the long-term consequences of your actions (Naval)


big companies tend to be managed indifferently (Valentine)


keeping attention is harder than getting attention (Meservey)


mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean (Munger)


most people try to be smart, it’s better to focus on not being an idiot (Munger)


knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant (Munger)


in communication, always work backward from the fact that the other person doesn’t care


companies fracture internally long before they do externally


perfection is obtained not when there is nothing left to add - but when there is nothing left to take away


keep a list of things you’re not trying to optimize for


be long-term greedy (Levy)


every person in a company is a vector. progress is determined by the sum of all vectors. (Elon)


the abc’s of business decay: arrogance, bureaucracy, and complacency (Buffet)


success breeds complacency - complacency breeds failure - only the paranoid survive (Grove)


hire people bigger than yourself (Ogilvy)


you cannot bore people into buying your product - you can only interest them (Ogilvy)


unless your campaign contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night (Ogilvy)


the consumer is not a moron - she is your wife - treat her accordingly (Ogilvy)


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