I’ve recently finished Gordon Ramsay’s auto-biography, I’m on to Andre Agassi’s, and next up is Ted Turner’s (I started reading it as a book, but I …Read more

Andre Agassi in Open: An Autobiography: I’ve internalized my father. His impatience. His perfectionism. His rage. Until his voice doesn’t just feel…Read more

I’m fascinated by the relationship between childhood and upbringing and entrepreneurship or creativity of any sort. John Cleese wrote the book “Fam…Read more

Chin-Ning Chu in Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life: Dozens of books are published …Read more

Noah Glass on that inner knowing: At that time, even in the very early stages, I had this strange feeling that I had never had before - that this w…Read more

What’s the purpose of a business? Most people will tell you the purpose is to make money, to profit. I say the purpose of a business is to create …Read more

Seth Godin in Tribes: A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it. As opposed to…Read more

Another quote from Seth Godin’s Tribes, where he talks about Meghan McDonald (who seems to be from his own home town of New Rochelle): She doesn’t …Read more

Seth Godin in Tribes: Dr. Laurence Peter is famous for proposing that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” I…Read more