There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.

He might actually do better by letting the truck stand idle those two days, but he wouldn’t know it because he’s looking only at sales, not profit. It’s a common failing, especially among people starting out in business. Unfortunately, it’s sometimes a fatal one.

In the past you were powerless to change the thing that hurt you, but now you can change your reactions to situations that resemble those that once caused you pain.

The ancient curse will not go out painlessly; the tough, old miser within us will not lie down and die obedient to our command. He must be torn out of our heart like a plant from the soil; he must be extracted in agony and blood like a tooth from the jaw.

Avoid warrants, as they complicate the whole thing.

People do listen to you in an intense way you never experienced before you became a manager. They attribute meaning—sometimes accurately, sometimes not—to what you say, to the clothes you wear, to the car you drive. In some ways, becoming a boss is like getting arrested. Everything you say or do can and will be used against you.

Level 1 — PositionPosition is the only level that requires no ability or effort to achieve. While nothing is wrong with leadership position, everything is wrong with relying only on that position to get people to follow.

Our job is to provide our kids with opportunity after opportunity to exercise their upstairs brain so that it can grow stronger and more powerful.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.