I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.
A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.
If I were in Steve Prefontaine’s shoes, I’d have done the same thing he did. Except for all that running. I wouldn’t have done that.
Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.
My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.
I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.
GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.
Don’t hang onto anything too tightly – all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.
Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.
There’s something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren’t.
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.
When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.
Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not to be the highest paid dentist in Beverly Hills.
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
