Tom Schmidt

When you look outside — your rivals, your industry, your luck — there is always something to blame. When you look inside — your process, your effort,

“I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.”

“I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another. And that is I say

focusing your energy on the critical few rather than the trivial many

Every complaint about you is also a commercial for you—after all, nobody bothers to yell at a nobody.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears

People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It's not. It's about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind. Wh