Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.