“I have a chart there about dinners… criteria: board meeting tomorrow, friend attending, venue cool, content interesting, speaker or book giveaway.”

“Attendance and punctuality at meetings is like a standard… when standards erode, the fabric of the organization can start to decay.”

“Not only did people attend the meeting more, but they also came at those problems with a totally different mindset.”

“Every speaker that's coming to the audit committee or the boardroom, try to remember to include their bios. You don't want to waste valuable time during the board meeting going through their backgrounds.”

“We throw 42 events a year… that's my most active business… investors come from… donations to charity come from booking me as a speaker.”