The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

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.

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

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.

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!