If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.

Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.