Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.