The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.