The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing . But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now.

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.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip

People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.