When founders receive stocks, it’s called common stock. When investors buy stocks, it is called preferred stock. Preferred stock can become common stock, but not the other way around.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Take a minute. Look at your performance. See if your behavior matches your goals.

If you want business advice, you need to go to someone who has run a business over an extended period of time, and I’m talking about a real operating business, one that sells something other than accredited, professional expertise.

A second advantage of the Fertile Crescent flora is that the wild ancestors of many Fertile Crescent crops were already abundant and highly productive, occurring in large stands whose value must have been obvious to hunter- gatherers.

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

The important thing is for you to be logical and objective in assessing your probabilities of being right. It is not illogical or arrogant to believe that you know better than the average person, so long as you are appropriately open-minded.

Just to be clear, what helps isn’t telling the other person; it’s knowing what you really feel. Simply admitting your true feelings and stating them out loud can make a huge difference in regaining your emotional peace.

Fear can kill your dreams, while ambition can fuel them.

The only guarantee, ever, is that things will go wrong. The only thing we can use to mitigate this is anticipation. Because the only variable we control completely is ourselves.