Categories:
- Rallying the Team
- Personal Success
- Ins and Outs of Entrepreneurship
- Conquering Fear
- Dealing with Failure
- Overcoming Challenges
- Thoughts on Innovation
Conquering Fear
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t tickle the dragon.
Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
About right now is better than exactly wrong later.
Make sure that the best thing to happen to your customer today is you.
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.
If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the entrepreneur adjusts the sails.
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
With Early Stage companies, it’s never one thing. It’s always one thing after another.
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.
Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Simplicity is a virtue.
I would rather fail at something I love than succeed at something I hate.
Retail is detail.
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
People will remember stories long after they have forgotten your bullet points.
Give someone a book, they’ll read if for a day. Teach someone how to write a book and they’ll experience a lifetime of paralyzing self-doubt.
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Why should I worry about dying? It’s not going to happen in my lifetime.
No one ever confines a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
The old definition of leadership is ‘look at me, I’m a leader.’ But the new definition should be ‘No, actually, look at you – I’m listening.’
You can’t demand a withdrawal from someone you have not invested in.
Big companies are amazing at coming up with reasons not to do things.
We live to learn.
The customer of my customer is my customer.
People have a historical memory that goes back to breakfast.
A fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
It’s not success you want to be remembered for, but significance.
I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
We had a quote over the door that read, ‘Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.’
Accommodate changing times but cling to unchanging principles.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Religion either leads to a deeper reflection or a greater certainty.
Let’s go invest tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
Profit gives us resources.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
There is living and dying. There is no retirement.
Try your best to make goodness attractive.
Dad always used to say, ‘Tell me a fact, and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth, and I’ll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.’
Your faith needs to be greater than your fear.
I often tell would-be entrepreneurs that you have to be a little crazy or even masochistic to choose this life. The energy, endurance, optimism and just plain thick skin required aren’t for the faint of heart.
I believe that smart people working hard will eventually get lucky.
If you‘re the smartest person in the room, you haven’t hired well.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The fact that others are bad does not imply that you are good.
We was doin’ good till we blowed up!
We’re imperfect people pursuing perfect ideas and there’s tremendous frustration in the gap.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.