A pivot requires that we keep one foot rooted in what we’ve learned so far, while making a fundamental change in strategy in order to seek even greater validated learning.

The chance encounter with Butch is a TEST which shows a flaw in Vincent, a lack of respect for his elders.

Great leaders build trust all around them.

Until every individual man makes the Christian conception of life his own, and begins to live in accordance with it, there can be no solution of the problem of human life, and no establishment of a new form of life.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improve it by 1 percent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together.

The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.

Conduct with serious gravitas, you get a reputation for excellent, you get relevant auctoritas given to you.

Before any of us can hope to engage others in wonderfully fierce conversations, we must engage ourselves in a dialogue so real, so sweet, so fierce, so filled with silences that we can hear our own heartbeat.

When your team is growing swiftly, hiring becomes easily the top one or two most important skills. If you need to build out a large team and you don’t have a strong bench of managers, the problem quickly becomes intractable. You can’t create great outcomes without consistently attracting talented people.