Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.

Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals.