I particularly like #10 - "Play to the top of the room." This forces your audience into a race for the top, rather than forcing you as a comedian (business person, lover, whatever) into a race for the bottom (a.k.a 'Nutty Professor 2').
# 1 - "If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered." makes a heck of a mantra for life. If you try to be somebody else, at best you'll only ever come second.
#1 works well for when people try to copy your business, too.
People warned me this would happen if I kept blogging about my business, and it turns out they were right. I think I have two dopplegangers now. Turns out that if you're concentrating on beating your own previous best performance beating the performance of knockoffs of your own previous best performance isn't all that hard.
# 1 - "If you can be yourself on stage nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered." makes a heck of a mantra for life. If you try to be somebody else, at best you'll only ever come second.