Most elite college graduates end up in financing or consulting, because they don’t know what they really want and feel lost.

When you give your children lots of practice at remembering—by having them tell and retell their own stories—you improve their ability to integrate implicit and explicit memories.

Game day is not a day for long, drawn-out speeches. It’s a time for interaction. And you have to interact by feel. That’s what I do. I coach by feel. I follow my heart.

When starting out, calculate your monthly sales and gross profit margin by hand.

Transformations that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years.

Lesson 1: Relationships don’t disappear like cake, they grow like muscles.

There are no real shortcuts in business, and when you look for them, you usually get in trouble. It took me a long time to realize that. People like me want instant gratification. One of the hardest lessons I had to learn is that you can’t expect good things—like more customers and better sales—to happen overnight.

When you trade your time for money you risk the illusion that life begins on Friday night and ends on Monday morning.

Every mistake that you make and learn from will save you from thousands of similar mistakes in the future.

There's nothing wrong with looking for ways to spend time with people who have accomplished more and have more wisdom than you. Once you put yourself in position to connect with the famous and powerful, the key is not to feel as if you're undeserving or an impostor. You're a star in your own right, with your own accomplishments, and you have a whole lot to give to the world.