Things to Think About

"Luck is a dividend of sweat." — Ray Kroc

"You are the average of the five people you choose to spend the most time with." Anonymous

“We become the choices we make in life.” Jeff Bezos

“Real leaders help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.” David Foster Wallace

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde

“We don’t regret the risks we took and failed. We regret the risks we failed to take.”
Marshall Goldsmith

I have found, with the people I work with, that oftentimes courage is a key part of their journey to become a better version of themselves—the them that they really want to be. Whether it’s in business, in leadership, or in their personal lives, courage, at one time or another, comes into play.

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality." Norman Douglas

"You can deny reality. But, what you can't deny are the consequences of denying reality." Ayn Rand

"When I'm afraid of losing, I never win." Anonymous

What a wonderful reminder of such a basic truth in life. Many years ago, a friend asked me, “Pepper, are you playing to win, or playing not-to-lose? There’s a big difference you know.”

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Anonymous