I know there's a lot of guys who would love to see me fail. Well, good. Let 'em. I'm glad.

Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of day and bad ideas sometimes do quite well because of the skills of the proponent to sell them.

How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions.

[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.

I don't care what anybody says. The first tournament is not the hardest one to win. It's always the second one.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.