I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.

To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first

You have to envision yourself winning to win.

In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.

When we are truly passionate about something we are contagious.

When you help someone through a health issue, positively impact someone's personal wealth, or take a sincere interest in their children, you engender life-bonding loyalty.

People who instinctively establish a strong network of relationships have always created great businesses.

Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.

"What is your fortune my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune sir " she said.

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.

Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the hard, creative development period.

Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world.

My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.