As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only "as harmless as doves," but also "as wise as serpents." He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head.

Orchestration is the elimination of discretion, or choice, at the operating level of your business.

What is immediately rewarded is repeated. What is immediately punished is avoided.

The capacity to develop close and enduring relationships through care with empathy and candor is essential to building trust. If you do not deeply understand people and care about them, you cannot help them unlock their full potential.

My second life will then commence, and it shall be as a birthday for the rest of my life.

Integrity requires alignment of our values—the core beliefs and behaviors that we have claimed are important to us—and our actions.

Be present. And if you’ve had trouble with this in the past? That’s okay. That’s the nice thing about the present. It keeps showing up to give you a second chance.

A comprehensive theory of entrepreneurship should address all the functions of an early-stage venture: vision and concept, product development, marketing and sales, scaling up, partnerships and distribution, and structure and organizational design.

An identity or a career cannot be built around what you don’t want. We have to shift from a negative identity, or a sense of what I’m not, to a positive one, or a sense of what I am.

You should engage in negotiation with a mindset of discovery - with hypotheses you’re looking to disprove. The goal is to extract as much information as possible. (Beginner’s mind)