Expertise

You don’t pay the plumber for banging on the pipes, you pay him for knowing where to bang.

Character

A person’s character isn’t determined by how he enjoys victory but by how he endures defeat.

Human Capital

In leadership, the hardest decisions are rarely about numbers. They’re about people. You don’t build successful companies by focusing on profit first. You build them by focusing on people, and profit follows. Today, every decision I make at ICM Holdings still comes back to this:

Trust the process

The man who loves walking will walk further than the man who loves the destination.

Intellectual Humility

Intellectual humility means that the other person could be right. If you go into a discussion with intellectual humility, you are likely to have a progressive discussion.

What is discipline?

5. Focus on Who You’re Becoming→ Lesson: Your future self-matters more than your past. Keep your attention forward. 7. Dreams Killed by Doubt vs. Failure→ Lesson: Fear is more destructive than failure. Trust yourself and take the leap. 8. What If I Fall? | But What If I Fly?→ Lesson: Focus on the possibilities, not the risks. Growth […]

Risks of Success

Success carries within itself seeds of failure and failure carries within itself seeds of success. Success sometimes teaches us terrible lessons because it plays to our ego and gets us to say things like: Embrace failure as they is likely more to learn from it than success.