Lewis Howes Quotes

I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.

A true entrepreneurial enterprise begins with a big idea - a unique way to solve a customer's problem. Your customer, after all, is the only justification for creating a company in the first place. Without a big, transformational idea, you can't produce a great result for your customer.

Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.

We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to get these jobs done. Marketing is all about asking, 'What job is the customer trying to accomplish?'

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

Great products sell themselves.

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.

You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.

The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but results - that can solve someone else's problem or contribute to making someone else's life better.

You have to be confident about the product you're putting out. It's just like when a boxer is promoting a fight. You can't go out there and be like, 'This guy might beat me.'

Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself.

We are present in all areas, and our products are the best.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.