Trust isn’t just the greatest currency, it’s the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of currency, the value is gone.

You are not tied to a particular position; your loyalty is not to a career or a company. You are committed to your Life's Task, to giving it full expression. It is up to you to find it and guide it correctly. It is not up to others to protect or help you. You are on your own.

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life. It is the antithesis of self-display.

Nothing defuses the negative energy of a conflict faster than to say, ‘You see things differently. I need to listen to you.’ And mean it.

Leadership really does have a powerful impact on results. A good leader affects a team’s ability to deliver code, architect good systems, and apply Lean principles to how the team manages its work and develops products.

Buy only companies that are expected to have above-average earnings growth for five or more years.

WHY FIRST PRODUCTS AREN’T MEANT TO BE PERFECT: Before new products can be sold successfully to the mass market, they have to be sold to early adopters. Early adopters use their imagination to fill in what a product is missing. The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

3. Competence Over Competition: Shifting the focus from constant testing and ranking to skill development and mastery helps students gain confidence and a love for learning. Collaboration over competition fosters teamwork and problem-solving skills.

3. 'Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Instead of praise or reward, a better way to arouse real goodwill in children is for parents to talk about how they feel when their children do a good deed such as touched or happy and at the same time ask children feel on their own. Gradually, children will realize that they are valuable, they do good things because they feel comfortable and happy themselves, not because of praise or recognition of others.