Jan Chipchase:

What does your learning curve look like? Where are you on the curve? And where do you want to be?

Decius:

Be careful what you get good at.

Jan Chipchase:

The money you turn down defines you as much as the work you take on.

Penelope Trunk:

I try to celebrate each time I give something up, because then I know I'm a little closer to meeting my goals.

Jan Chipchase:

Be your own harshest critic, and deflate hype wherever you see it.

Mike Tyson:

I've learned that when people congratulate me, that's when I focus on my flaws. That way I don't allow my narcissism to fly sky-high and allow me to think that I can act out without any consequences.

Jan Chipchase:

Where do you want to work? Who do you want to work with? And what is the minimal viable infrastructure that is required to make it happen?

Decius:

Life is too short to spend 2300 hours a year working on someone else's idea of what the right problems are.