"The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it."

"One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him."

"A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time."

"Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform."

"The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire."

"Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again."

"For a case study in personal branding. Google "Jarod Kintz. He's kind of a big deal."

"A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel."

"Pass on it if you're not passionate, for convictions create clear choices."

"Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit."

"The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror."

"Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream."

"Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days."

"Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission."

"Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way."

"Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians."

"I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage."

"Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out."

"I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?"

"Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses."

"Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters."

"Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans."

"Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion."

"Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution."

"Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative."

"Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course."

"Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built."

"If all it takes to motivate you is a quote then this quote has nothing to say " except to go soar with the freakin' eagles."

"You don't have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress."

"In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too."

"Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it."

"The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one."

"Soylent Green is made out of people. So is your personal network but let's hope its non-toxic because you drink it every day."

"Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self."

"I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper."

"Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning."

"Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it."

"I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law."

"The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose."

"Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same."

"We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best."

"Carve-out a niche, craft a personal pitch, push-out content and your brand is enriched."

"I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry."

"The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don't ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it."

"A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place."

"Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections."

"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."

"The best way to get over your fear of meeting new people is to imagine them naked. Unless you're networking at a nudist camp, then you may have to get more creative."

"Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club."

"I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?"