If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.