In my experience entrepreneurs are usually optimistic; they see opportunity where others see obstacles. They are also aspirational.
And as a result many entrepreneurs confuse goal setting with creating strategy.
They are not the same.
While your ‘BHAG’ might be cool to talk about with your friends, and it might be motivational to you, the market doesn’t care about it.
Good strategy is about solving a problem that people need solving. Do that better than anyone else and you give yourself a strategic advantage.
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.