Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.

Plans are great, but missions are better.

If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.