The more things a given cue is associated with, the weaker any given association... Poke too many holes and you’ll get barely a trickle from each.

You should never make important business decisions when you’re feeling driven by urgency. I don’t care whether the urgency is coming from your own impatience or from other people putting pressure on you to decide. If you feel as though you have to make the decision right away, don’t make it.

No one can give another person life skills. Each of us has to acquire them by doing the work of life. On our own.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Always be aware that happiness does not come from money, possessions, or fame; it comes from the quality of relationships with the people you love and respect.

When you are low on energy, the chance of exercising goes down, along with your mood. Low mood gives you the urge to do the things that make mood worse.

Practicing letting go is one of the most important things I’ve learned.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

Dentists encourage us to use dental floss daily to promote the health of our teeth; we need to use mental floss to get rid of old thinking and promote the health of our leadership.

The smartest way to deal with this kind of limitation is to cheat. Instead of forcing ourselves to do something we don’t feel like doing, we need to find a way to make us feel like doing what moves our project further along.