The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice in the matter. The voice in our heads won't shut up until we discover if we're right, if we can do it, if we can make something happen. This is an art, our art, and to leave it bottled up is a crime.

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.

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.

When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.