Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.