11. Being an entrepreneur means being a leader. Being a leader means making decisions which carry the fate of your dreams and people’s livelihoods. This is what you signed up for, but you are not alone.
10. We needed self-starters, the kind of people who see what needs to be done and do it.
9. People are like golf swings. They are never exactly right, and they can always get better.
8. Once you lose someone’s trust, the only way to get it back is to trust in the person whose trust you are trying to earn.
7. Lead by example. You show me how much you care about me when I see the pain you will endure to keep me around.
6. You get better at what you measure.
5. When people get hired or promoted into the wrong position, it becomes the responsibility of the leader to vote them off the island. It’s a tough decision, but it has to be made by someone. That someone is you.
4. Great visionary leaders know exactly how far ahead of the group they can get without losing them. This is the art of leadership.
3. Founders slowly release control, function by function, and the last area of control they hold on to is always revenue.
2. I believe, as leaders, we have that one thing that can bring us down. To ensure the one thing does not win the day, God puts a person in our lives whom we respect and listen to.
1. Legacy isn’t something I leave behind as a life’s work. My legacy is the people I’m influencing through the life I’m living.