You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.