“Compare yourself to no one else but yourself. Its not about anybody elses anything. Its about YOU. Are you the best you? Thats all you need to worry about. Imagine how awesome it would be if everyo...”

“You must take the time to do something that brings you joy. If you are saying to yourself, I cant do that because I have to pick up the kids, and run my business, and and whos got time for fun? A...”

“It is the leaders job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone i...”

“FAIL UP. If something doesnt go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!”

“Great leaders build trust from their team because the leader is willing to put his/her people first. Once the team believes that, they will put their leader, and the company, first as well.”

“This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU?”

“If you hire people just because they can do a job, theyll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, theyll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Tha...”

“Dont worry, Im not quitting. Ive decided Im going to stay andmake his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.--Kim to Abe”

“And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of who I was during however many days and weeks it was written. A fictional reflection of my mind fo...”

“There's a lot of sex. But it isn't about sex.”

“We are good at stories. We hoard them, like an old woman in a room full of boxes, but now and then we pull out our best, and spread them out. We talk of the bad years when the cotton didn't open, a...”

“Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.”

“Think about what you sell in terms of how it eases or prevents pain for your client.”

“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and...”