Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.