The way you fulfill your mentoring role will have a profound effect on your child’s sense of self-worth and on your ability to influence and teach.

Successful venture capital firms do not just pick winners. They work with the companies they invest in and help them throughout the company-building life cycle over a long period of time.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

We imagine that if nothing happens in our twenties then everything is still possible in our thirties. We think that by avoiding decisions now, we keep all of our options open for later— but not making choices is a choice all the same.

Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

Orthodoxy that is cold is only academically orthodox. It stimulates the Lower Room passion to manage.

The Five Whys ties the rate of progress to learning, not just execution.

We must overcome social- and self-oppression if we are ever to join the ranks of the free souls who love their lives and lead their people.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job.

The best modules have simple interfaces which abstract away complex implementations.