When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.

We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty.

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

A why has to be for others. It's something you give to the world. It's the reason your friends love you because this is the thing that you give them and it fulfills them. This is the reason your clients love you or your fans love you because you give them something. It's something to offer, that's what the why is.

We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.

The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.