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

You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.

I understand what my brand is. My brand is not my information. My brand is me and what I say is secondary to who I am.

As your employer, if I see that you have to work hard to get your results, yet your coworkers achieve their results with little effort, don't be surprised if I'm not all that impressed with your hard work.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

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.

You can’t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.