What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

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.

I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

My father was a huge influence on me.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

He's going to learn the hard way. Hopefully he changes his mentality quick.

So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.

Power is the ability to afford not to learn.

Trust that you can get back up and not give in. Ever.

I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.

When you stop being afraid you feel good