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"I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time."
"I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter."
"When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't."
"I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try." Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try." I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working."
"Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame."
"I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail."
"Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit."
"I never wanted to be a public speaker."
"When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace."
"I never imagined I'd write a book."
"I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why."