You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

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

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.