Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.

Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.

I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.

It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.

We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.