Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company's culture.
There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.
The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
There's only one rule: The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins. Period. Because you won't die. Even though you feel like you'll die, you don't actually die. Like when you're training, you can always do one more. Always. As tired as you might think you are, you can always, always do one more.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.