“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

“Where there is curiosity, the adult in the child and the child in the adult are awaken. This is how innovation happens.”

“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves....”

"Momentum is not merely tactical. It is strategic because it builds its own dynamic propulsion."

"I find that the best, most meaningful networking relationships occur inside the context of living your life and being fully present in the opportunities that show up."

“The power of the team is so, so much greater than any one individual.”

“I tell everybody on the team, I expect you to fail at times. In fact, if you’re not failing once in a while, you’re not pushing yourself far enough.”

“Our stories can lift us up or they can hold us down. We are responsible for that. We live in a story, and that means we can change it.”

“The future pulls us out of the past, and pulls toward the dream, and what’s possible.”

“You cannot succeed without failure; that’s a given. Let’s be honest, unless you’ve never tried entrepreneurship then you know that to succeed you have to do a lot of trial and error. And, if you’re an entrepreneur, the bigger and the crazier your goal, and the vision, and the dream is, the more you have to be outside your comfort zone.”

"Confidence doesn't come from something external to you, it comes from the inside."