SECURE THE CANDIDATE: Your job is not done until the candidate is delivering results as your employee. To get them through the door, you must sell to them by sincerely appealing to the 5Fs that people care about: Fit, Family, Freedom, Fortune, and Fun.

Emotion: Both positive & negative emotions can spur action, so long as they trigger a high level of arousal. Use this principle to find your emotional hook or leverage situational factors for emotional arousal.

Despite these very early first steps, neither pottery nor weaving took off until people became sedentary and thereby escaped the problem of transporting pots and looms.

His ability to combine art, science, technology, the humanities, and imagination remains an enduring recipe for creativity. So, too, was his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical.

Conflict resolution: Nonviolent communication offers a framework for resolving conflicts peacefully and finding win-win solutions. By practicing empathy, expressing feelings and needs, and making clear requests, we can create an atmosphere of collaboration and understanding.

Scale creates millionaires. Magnitude creates millionaires. Scale and magnitude creates billionaires.

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.

You will make a far greater impact on the lives of others and in your business when you connect with people instead of simply directing.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.