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"All these companies that grew to any sizable proportions were all founded with a belief or a cause bigger than their products or services. It was their products or services that helped them bring that cause to life."
"There's only one why. You only have one why, and your why is fully formed by the time you're 17, 18 or 19years old, maybe even earlier. The rest of your life are simply opportunities to either live in or out of balance and the career choices we make and the decisions we make in our lives either put us in balance with our why, which makes us happy, fulfilled and inspired. Or it puts us out of our why, which makes us frustrated, stressed out and sometimes we fail."
"I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does. What starts to happen is like exercise, the pain goes away. It starts to get easier and the weight starts to get lighter and people start to notice a difference in you and you start to notice a difference in yourself. You find your ability to make decisions is easier; you find you are inspired more often. You find your success increases. You find that your random moments when you're in the flow are no longer random and you can control them. Other people notice the difference."
"You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe."
"To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world."
"A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary."
"Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions."
"I'm very clear about what I believe."
"True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work."
"Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from."
"Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy."
"The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others."
"Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make."
"I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger."
"I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does."
"Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds."
"Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible."
"I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not."
"The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book.""
"We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there."