My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.