“Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!”

When getting help with money, whether it is insurance, real estate or investments you should always look for a person with the heart of a teacher, not the heart of a salesman.

More wealth doesn’t fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

At the end of the day we are not selling, we are serving.

Outrageous generosity is a character quality of people who win with money.

Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.

Remember, there’s ultimately only one way to financial peace, and that’s to walk daily with the Prince of Peace, Christ Jesus.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

You can’t be in debt and win. It doesn’t work.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, ‘I’m just passing through.’

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Nothing happens without focus. Don’t try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.

Listen to your customers, but don’t always build exactly what they’re telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent… because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology… and you can build software then, around the user.

The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead.

Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.