What distinguishes people who are ten times more effective than the norm is not that they work ten times as hard; it's that they use their creativity to come up with solutions that require one-tenth of the effort.

With a small team, you need people who are going to do work, not delegate work. Everyone's got to be producing. No one can be above the work.

The new luxury is to shed the shackles of deferred living—to pursue your passions now, while you're still working.

Most people suffering from a lack of motivation will blame themselves first. "Ah, it's because I'm such a procrastinator!" "Why can't I just get myself together?" The truth, more often than not, is that you are not the problem; it's the world you're working in.

He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life...

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

To confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is so prevalent that I…would willingly risk my life, tho' not my character, to exalt my station. I'm confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity… My folly makes me ashamed, yet Neddy we have seen such schemes successful when the projector is constant. I shall conclude saying I wish there was a war.

The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.