What do you stand for? What’s important to you? What’s critical and always will be critical? I think most people get branding wrong because they focus solely on what they think their customers want to hear. That leads to superficial, weak, pithy, drivel.
The best brands clearly stand for something and whether you agree with them or not, you can’t ignore them.
What you stand for is timeless, like a great brand. It’s expression might change, but the essence remains constant.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.