Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with details.

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.

You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.

I had thought that I would stop in 2017, but my coach has told me to stop saying that as I may continue into 2018. I'm not thinking about it at the moment.