People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.