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

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

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It’s becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self.

Those without passion are often passed and shunned.

Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you’re trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn’t floating right.

The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.

The best way to get over your fear of meeting new people is to imagine them naked. Unless you’re networking at a nudist camp, then you may have to get more creative.

My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

I had a dream about you starting a pet store. You didn’t have any customers yet, and I was your guinea pig.

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.

I’m friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I’m 1 degree away from 212 degrees.

I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.

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

Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path.

Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.

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.

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

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.

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

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...

If all it takes to motivate you is a quote then this quote has nothing to say – except to go soar with the freakin’ eagles.

The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you’ll probably fall into it.

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

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

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you’re an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you’re probably under a restraining order.

Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

You can’t force creatives into a box. If you try, they’ll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality’s restrictions.

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 making balloon animals for kids. You were out of balloons and the kids were out of patience, so you inflated their imaginations instead.

Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.

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

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

Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion.

Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn’t matter without a motivation to move.

Soylent Green is made out of people. So is your personal network… but let’s hope its non-toxic because you drink it every day.

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.

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.

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.

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

I had a dream about you coming up with non sequiturs. You were a purple giraffe and I was an orange rhino. But we were eating liquid skittles.

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

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

I’ve never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn’t it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you’re here?

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.