Honesty is like food. Both are necessary, but too much of either creates discomfort. Tweet

• honesty

Conversation is more than the sum of the words. It is also a way of signaling the importance of another person by showing your willingness to give that person your rarest resource: time. Tweet

• conversation

As a general rule, wherever you find a large group of people who are baffled by complexity, you will find a smaller group of people making a good living screwing them. Tweet

• funny

When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it. Tweet

• funny
• advice

You are what you learn. Tweet

• education

There's a fine line between good marketing and grand larceny. Tweet

• sales

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. Tweet

• ideas
• execution

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If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Tweet

• funny

If there's a loophole, someone's going to drive a truck through it, and the people in the truck will get paid better than the people under it. Tweet

• fairness

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If you're taking risks, and you probably should, you can find yourself failing 90% of the time. The trick is to get paid while you're doing the failing and to use the experience to gain skills that will be useful later. Tweet

• failure
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You can't manage luck directly, but you can manage your career in a way that makes it easier for luck to find you. To succeed, first you must do something. And if that doesn't work, which can be 90% of the time, do something else. Luck finds the doers. Tweet

• luck
• failure
• initiative

Success doesn't come from bland acceptance by the entire world. It comes from the ability to inspire the few. Tweet

• leadership
• success

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It's easy to feel trapped in your own life. Circumstances can sometimes feel as if they form a jail around you. But there's almost nothing you can't learn your way out of. If you don't like who you are, you have the option of learning until you become someone else. Life is like a jail with an unlocked, heavy door. You're free the minute you realize the door will open if you simply lean into it. Tweet

• education
• self improvement

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Our choice of clothes can influence how people treat us. That's a view that every living human agrees upon. Most of us act upon that belief once or twice a day. When I get dressed, the first two questions I ask myself are 1) "Who is going to see me?" and 2) "What do I want them to think of me?" You probably do the same thing. If not, there's something deeply wrong with you, or possibly you're an engineer. Tweet

• funny
• fashion
• appearance

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