An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.