Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Everyone is not your customer.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.