Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.

Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong

Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.

I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they think it's about them. You have to make your story, whatever story it is you're telling, their story. So you have to get good at telling a story so they can identify themselves in your story.

If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling information. They don't need to have a picture on the cover at all because they are not important. They're secondary to their information. To me, the information is secondary to me.

Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.