Focus on being productive instead of busy.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

What's the worst that could happen?

For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.