Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

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

It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.