Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.

Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though.

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

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.