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

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.

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

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.