“There is no safe container to store your values while you’re at work; not living your deepest values will leak on you”

“Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.”

“Essentially, people live in one of two ways. Either they live in awareness of their own worthlessness, or they live in their awareness of the worthlessness of the world. Two ways. Either you allow your value to be absorbed by the world, or you chisel away at the world's value and make it your own. Which should take precedence, the value of the world your own value?”

“You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.”

“Unfortunately, there’s no law against being smart and living stupid, no matter how harmful it may be to you. You can unknowingly ricochet away from your deepest values because you’ve mistakenly come to believe you don’t deserve to live them—and spend much of your life sabotaging what you want most by aiming for just the opposite. This doesn’t mean your values haven’t always been your values. They’re driving you still and they’re waiting for you still. Toss them away as forcefully as you want, then duck: boomerang.”

“If you put a small value on your works, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”