Leaders must be prepared to make an educated guess based on previous experience, knowledge of how the enemy operates, likely outcomes, and whatever intelligence is available in the immediate moment.

A good rule of thumb for any relationship is to leave three unimportant things unsaid each day.

Stop hunting; start farming: build relationships before selling.

“Throughput,” he says, “is the rate at which the system generates money through sales.”

It is easy to get bogged down trying to find the optimal plan for change: the fastest way to lose weight, the best program to build muscle, the perfect idea for a side hustle. We are so focused on figuring out the best approach that we never get around to taking action. As Voltaire once wrote, ‘The best is the enemy of the good.’

The company would live or die by the quality of my decisions.

Unless our reading includes serious thinking it is wasted time.

Movies of this type are quantum events, breaking through old shells and boundaries, flinging the idea of a movie to a whole new level. These quantum-event films capture something that resonates in many, many people. They must express some nearly universal emotion or satisfy a widely shared wish.

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

Some say that feedback is the “breakfast of champions.” But it isn’t. Vision is the breakfast. Feedback is the lunch. Self-correction is the dinner.