Go ahead, do something impossible.

Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

There are always limits, and opportunities. The ones we rehearse and focus on are the ones that shape our future.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

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.