Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.