If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.