The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.