All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.