“Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).”

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it’s a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

Your brand is your culture.

Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it’s when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you’re growing so quickly.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they’re not self-aware, I think it’s harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.

Your culture is your brand.

SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.

Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.

Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.

If you’re worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I’ve learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

I’m not that big, physically. I’m just big where it counts – I got a big heart!

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.

I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.

Maybe you have to be smaller if you want to see bigger things. To see how the sky looked prettier from the ground.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

The variety of disasters that can occur to us is so enormous that we tend to preserve our sanity by not thinking about most of them.”