Why we don't value intellectual honesty beyond easy answers is beyond me.

When we become aware of the multitude of changing emotions and forces at work around us and within us, we can acknowledge them and even embrace them as parts of ourselves—but we don’t have to allow them to bully us or define us.

Seizing the advantage, the power of organizational health is undeniable. Even the most skeptical executives I meet don't dispute the advantage they could achieve if they could make their leadership teams more cohesive, align them around the answers to the six questions – what do we do, what is most important right now, who must do what, why do we exist, what are our values, and what is our wealth-focused purpose – and get them to communicate and reinforce those answers incessantly.

Choosing to live and love with our whole hearts is an act of defiance. You’re going to confuse, piss off, and terrify lots of people—including yourself… You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time. At least that’s how I feel most of the time…brave, afraid, and very, very alive.

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

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself.

One of the fastest ways to restore trust is to make and keep commitments – even very small commitments – to ourselves and to others.

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.

To estimate the proper value of a stock, you could use the 4 determinants a fundamentalist does: 1) The expected growth rate. 2) The expected dividend payout. 3) The degree of risk. 4) The level of market interest rates.

It might seem that intense feelings of love, hate, or anger can be used to impel you forward on some project, but that is an illusion. Such emotions give you a burst of energy that falls quickly and leaves you as low as you were high.