Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.