Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

Ish #28 "Give you child a name with meaning.

Disgust is so reassuring

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.

The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

We are human, which means we have the potential to make things different.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial.

If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically.

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.