Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.