You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.

If you make meaning, you'll make money.

Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.