“The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all….It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well…you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.”

Success means using your knowledge and experience to satisfy yourself. Significance means using your knowledge and experience to change the lives of others.

Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.

It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen.

I don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”

When you’re older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You’ve got to be the conductor. You can’t play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

The music is first and foremost everything – no egos, no attitude, nothing – it’s about the music.

Strength of will – is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won’t go away, who won’t stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all.

For Christmas when I was about four I got given ‘Can the can’ by Susie Quatro, so that was the first record I got. And I got Skyhooks “Ego is not a Dirty Word….

I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered.

Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I’ve ever coached had ego to spare.