While Dad liked it that Mom was bringing home a paycheck, he saw himself as the head of the household, and he maintained that the money should be turned over to him. It was his responsibility, he'd say, to handle the family finances.

There are four essential capabilities that we can rely on a Second Brain to perform for us: Making our ideas concrete. Revealing new associations between ideas. Incubating our ideas over time. Sharpening our unique perspectives.

Beloved friend, you do not know what you could do if you would give yourself up to intercession.

The populations of Iceland and Norway themselves were too small and too poor for them to continue their support of the Greenland Norse population.

His heart is too bound up with yours.

Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.

Everyone needs a brand. Your task: think of a short (two or three sentence) way of describing yourself and your accomplishments that bring together your expertise, your experience (what you have done), and a way of integrating that with some aspect of your personal story.

Talk to customers about their past experiences instead of your idea.

If you’ve got heavy product risk (as opposed to pure market risk), then you’re not going to be able to prove as much of your business through conversations alone.

Some say that feedback is the “breakfast of champions.” But it isn’t. Vision is the breakfast. Feedback is the lunch. Self-correction is the dinner.