Don't get stubborn, flow with the go. The key is to be open to unintended success. Some companies just can't take yes for an answer.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

Social media puts reciprocity on steroids because now you can reach more people in more ways to do more things for them faster and at lower expense. Positive word about your reciprocity can spread faster than ever.

For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.

Arguably, in business books, I don't think there's much that has never been said before.