Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Passion is born of vague hopes.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.