Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

If I fail more than you do, I win.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.