“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).”

Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.

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.

Your heart tells you big things in little ways.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.

But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.

Pain doesn’t know it’s small. Not until something bigger than itself tells it so.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.