“Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product.”

“I see dead Presidents. Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington.”

“If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?”

“Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.”

“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”

“The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.”

“He looked up at me without saying a word. I tried to hold it together but I could feel myself breaking as I fell to the floor, my face in my hands – tears flowing down my cheeks. For the first time in a while I felt like I was truly losing a hold of myself.”