People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.