“The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head”

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.

If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as ‘new.’

If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.