Quotes About Empowerment

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing. 

Remember: complaining is draining. So I wanted to make better use of that energy rather than fight it.

What advice would you give me in terms of how I value this?

idea generation, of the good kind, the kind that helps you AND OTHERS, which is the type you will exercise in this book, is worth ten times that, or more.

The absolute best, surefire way to make a good living is to help someone else make a good living.

This is a wonderful feminine quality but it is also important to remember that our own soothing, helping, and giving to ourselves is critical. So we may skip a day of doing the ten ideas if the world goes upside down. But we can take it again the next morning because our ideas are important. And because our contribution, the way we see the world, our thoughts, translated through a fine-tuned intuition of ideas is important.

You are entitled to say NO to wearing a mask in order to get people to like you. You can trust that the way you are is fine, that your honesty is what attracts others to you, and that your truth is what lights your internal fire.

Nothing ever works out when you are at the whims of others. It doesn't matter if you are an entrepreneur or an employee. Once someone is bribing you to do something (a salary is a form of bribery if you are only doing the work for the money and not for the meaning) then you become a prisoner.

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.

The only retirement plan is to choose yourself—to start a business or a platform or a lifestyle that allows you to put big chunks of money away. Some people can say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur.

It's not our parents' fault. Or our schools'. Or the government's. Or our friends'. They all have their own issues—no need to blame them. But there's no need to say yes to their stories either. Now is the time for us to build our own stories.

If I had a to-do list I might get even more stressed not getting to it. The to-do list becomes my master and I become the slave. One of my themes is "less slavery in my life.

Panic freezes you. Nobody is going to go into your head and take the panic away. But action leaks the panic out of your head.

True wealth occurs when you don't have to bow down to any gatekeepers—regardless of the money involved. Money is just a by-product. You are out of prison. You are free.

Everyone around you needs to ultimately become better than you. That's how you lead.

Engage with nobody who is bad to you. When you get in the mud with a pig, the pig gets happy and you get dirty.

Take control of whom you report to, what you do, and what you create. Don't just do what's listed in your job description.

At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer. You either define the temperature of the people around you and help them achieve their goals and dreams, or you simply do as you're told and be a follower and never inspire. How do you become the thermostat?

You are the alchemist of your life.

Leadership doesn't ask the question "How good can I get? How far can I get?" Leadership asks the question "How far can the people around me get?

Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. One hundred years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

But this is also the vortex on which we have the option to turn pro. It is where we own our idea machine power.

Leadership is not about achieving your dream. It's about helping everyone else achieve their dreams.

Even if you aren't an expert, give yourself permission to be a producer. Produce!