Dig first on your own property when seeking treasure... Most businesses have a rich diamond mine in the form of existing customers which remains largely untapped.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting—when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite—we propel ourselves ahead. We feel free to fail, and that failure moves us forward.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry.

Our brains are hardwired to thrive when we are serving others.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Being confused about choices is nothing more than hoping that maybe there is a way to get through life without taking charge.

The writer Adam Gopnik calls the trap into which I had fallen the ‘causal catastrophe’, which he defines as the belief ‘that the proof of the rightness or wrongness of some way of bringing up children is the kind of adults it produces’.

Lesson 1: “Eliminate” your competition by simply partnering with them.

True life is the realization of the I in the sonship to God and the brotherhood of mankind; and this life is effected by the recognition of the spirit of God, which is in every man and in the whole of mankind.

It is through improving our ability to deliver software that organizations can deliver features faster, pivot when needed, respond to compliance and security changes, and take advantage of fast feedback to attract new customers and delight existing ones.