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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’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?

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.

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

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

The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

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.

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

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

I’m considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

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

Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They’re like, ‘Who is this guy?’ And I’m like, ‘the end of your industry.

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

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who’s at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

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