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…the attitude of wisdom: being confident enough to act and humble enough to doubt your actions.

…social savvy is knowledge. It’s a set of skills that have to be learned… the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.

You either believe and go for it, or you don’t…. The right attitude is to prototype now, seek forgiveness later.

…exposing people to money affects their attitudes and [indicates] that extrinsic rewards are not effective to make your startup endure.

…if we can challenge our outmoded attitudes about time and how work gets done… then we can move toward a new way of working and thinking about work.

Adaptive change means that people’s underlying attitudes and beliefs change along with their behaviors.

…even if you get rid of the old attitudes about work, you need a new set of attitudes to take their place. You need a new culture.

Our attitudes about time are perhaps the hardest obstacle to overcome because they are so ingrained we might not even realize their influence over us.

…part of the power of the status quo is that it doesn’t have to do anything to reinforce its attitudes.

…if you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t trying hard enough. But as mistakes are necessary, so is a healthy organizational attitude toward them.