“Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.”

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

If you aren’t really careful, ‘The Good Enough’ can become the enemy of ‘The Best.’

Work is a surefire money-making scheme.

People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.

There’s a great place to go when you’re broke–to work!

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

A good financial planner is going to do more than pick your funds.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is true of adults as well.

The average millionaire can’t tell you who got thrown off the island last night.

There’s nothing in my head that’s worth anything at all because it’s the culture that put it there.

American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they’re not.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt with us. We had to learn to express and affirm values not from the winning position.