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

Entrepreneurs see what others can’t, do what others won’t, and accomplish what others dream.

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.

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

A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel.

Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.

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

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

game over.

Leadership calculus: always choose to rise over run.

Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.

The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

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

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

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

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

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.

If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy.

I had a dream about you. I was a cat. You were a red dot. And even those times I caught you, we couldn’t touch. But still I chased you anyway.

Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

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

Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer’s block.

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

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

A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.

Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.

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.

Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.

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

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

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers… only they don’t critique me and then get up for coffee.

Procrastinators are pros at neglecting now and languishing later.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

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

Never fear starting. Fear never starting.

Entrepreneurs see the “no diving” sign and back-up to get a running start.

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.

Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.

Schizophrenia. And I’m still having it.”

You don’t have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.

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

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

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.

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.