When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer. "
If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
Always deliver more than expected.
It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.
Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible. ' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.
In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.