Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.

The key issue when you're looking at cost cutting is to always plan for the future.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

I was never given this advice, people aren't given this advice, focus on growing and maintaining relationships for your network, and that's key. And most of the advice tends to be, you know, discover your strengths, build up your resume, get a title, all of that stuff pales in comparison.