Pass on it if you’re not passionate; for convictions create clear choices.

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.

Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.

I had a dream about you painting the scene of a house fire. The clocks were melting and Salvador Dali was riding around in a clown car muttering something about irony.

It’s a stream of senses and thoughts that happen during sleep. But that’s not important right now.”

I’m creating a self help show called Self Talk. I’ll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.

Leadership calculus: always choose to rise over run.

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.

Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again.

Those without passion are often passed and shunned.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term ‘entrepreneur’ but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

I had a dream about you reviewing a book on Reading Rainbow. Unlike the others, you were brutally honest in your feedback and brought Lavar and I to tears.

A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.

The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn’t make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.

A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.

Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you.

Jarod Kintz gets so many retweets, he’s like Katniss Everdeen with tourettes in a forest full of Mockingjays.

The study of personal branding brings one to realize everything is personal and everyone is branded.

Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.

I had a dream about you trying to parallel park your ego between two modest cars. The ego wouldn’t fit, and those guys weren’t putting up a fight, so let’s just say you made it work.

I had a dream about you while having a dream about you. We were watching the movie Inception and drinking déjà vu.

Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.

Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear.

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality’s restrictions.

think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world’s balance sheet?

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.

There’s been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.

I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.

I get this buzz every time I’m quoted online. The ego high… yes… but also a Google Alert.

Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.

I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven’t found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment.