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Racing is doing.

"What if i don't win"  There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. Now get out on the track, that's where you belong.

Remembering is the present folding back on the past. Good racers don't remember.

Our successes and failures are brought on by none other than ourselves.

People cheer champions who overcome adversity. Nobody cheers the sun for just rising.

Live every day as though it had been stolen from death

Theres a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

Rebelling against what is expected

Envision, create and believe in your own universe.  

Packards Law: a great company is more likely to die of indigestion of too much opportunity rather than starvation of too little.

The universe will test your commitment and passion.

Crown Brand: execution. Transformation. Culture.

Ur culture is ur brand.

Define core values. Formalized defn of culture.   Hire and fire on them. The test.

The idea of relying on faith, not reason, is known as fideism

NED: no evidence of disease vs. END: evidence of no disease

A thousand days cannot prove you right, but one day can prove you wrong

Searching for weaknesses vs confirming truths makes you great (vs good).

Memory is like a self serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event and, without realizing it, change the story at every subsequent rememberence.

Basic Philosophy:  the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Happiness is a state of non-Contradictory joy- a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

Its never the economy or competition that brings a company down, but rather the inability to respond.

Hire for: character, competitiveness, commitment, passion and capacity to grow.

Motivation is a personal responsibility.  Inspiration is a leaders responsibility