Most people are brought up believing that if they are a good person, good things will happen to them. While not entirely wrong, it’s not enough to unlock your potential. It's like walking up to a door with two locks and only one key. If you want to go inside, you need the other key. The second key is going positive and going first—proactively helpi... See more

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

— Dale Carnegie

Reputation is a form of wealth.

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to appreciate the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and work insane hours on something you have no idea whether or not it will be successful

There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.

Committed people do what interested people won’t.

Never "Multiply by Zero"

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I feel like every day in the news we see people who seem to "have it all" (think of professional athletes for instance) who are caught illegally gambling, drunk driving, high-speed racing, you name it. In some cases, these can be immediately and completely career-ending mistakes. We often wonder how someone who seemingly "... See more

“Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.” This is borrowed from the wise and wonderful Debbie Millman, for it’s hard to better capture something so fundamental yet so impatiently overlooked in our culture of immediacy. The myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — as well as a reminder that our present definition of success need... See more

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

​— Tim O’Reilly