That vision of the Smith Team helped us through what was the greatest challenge our family had ever faced.

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

“Proactive people are still influenced by external stimuli, whether physical, social, or psychological. But their response to the stimuli, conscious or unconscious, is a value-based choice or response.”

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

When we care, we share.

It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself

When you really listen to others in depth until they feel understood, you are communicating how much they mean to you.

When we behave well, it’s rarely because we want a reward or because we fear punishment, it’s because behaving with consideration towards other people comes naturally to us.

Lesson 2: Use referrals to get your foot in the door with good manufacturers.