Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

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.

Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights

Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.