“In discovery- driven planning, learning is the essential unit of progress. A course correction isnt equivalent to failure, its an opportunity to re-calibrate so you can move more quickly up the lea...”

“When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.”

“We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.”

“Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation, being overtaken by low-end entrants (i.e., younger, smarter, faster workers), and fast-tracking your personal and career growth.”

“When you disrupt yourself, you are looking for growth, so if you want to muscle up a curve, you have to push and pull against objects and barriers that would constrain and constrict you. That is ho...”

“The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you already believe, while the more open your network, the more exposed you are to new ideas.”

“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”

“You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being”

“Career is a marathon race, not a 100-meter sprint ~ Deepak Mehra”

“We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief...”

“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”

“Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.”

“I compete every moment, and my competition is only with myself.”