Great companies and great businesses often seem to be bad ideas when they first appear because business model innovations—by their very definition—can’t point to a proven business model to demonstrate why they’ll work.

Sameness is not oneness, and uniformity is not unity.

Dollars are like privates in your army: the more you have, the harder they fight for your freedom

A substantial amount (but not all) of the risk of common-stock investment can be eliminated by adopting a program of long-term ownership and sticking to it through thick and thin (the buy-and-hold strategy discussed in earlier chapters).

Investment in DevOps was highly correlated to software delivery performance.

Charisma has nothing to do with energy; it comes from a clarity of WHY. It comes from absolute conviction in an ideal bigger than oneself. Energy, in contrast, comes from a good night’s sleep or lots of caffeine. Energy can excite. But only charisma can inspire. Charisma commands loyalty. Energy does not.

In the biblical gospel we are not given a thing; we are given a person.

The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words.

I’m sure I’m better than Horiki at cartoons if nothing else." These clownish words of deceit were taken more seriously than the truth.

You get to spend your finite time focused on a few things that matter to you, in themselves, right now, in this moment. Find the very few critical things that bring the most meaning to your life. Say no to everything else. Then invest your whole self into every moment doing the things that matter.