Rosella Code

“In addition to operationalizing your culture, building a solid leadership team, and landing a sound strategic plan, you’ve also got to identify and implement processes you can rely on. Up to a point, personal heroics, like working late and working on the weekends, are enough to get stuff done. But eventually that breaks down. There literally aren’t enough hours in the day to keep up. To scale your business, you need processes that generate repeatable results and don’t require you to hire more and more people to manage them.”
― Dave Ramsey, Build a Business You Love: Mastering the Five Stages of Business

“I will start with the tree. Because everything begins, and ends, with the tree. The tree is the tallest one. It was planted way before the others. I'm not sure how old it is, exactly. Perhaps three or four hundred years old. It is ancient and powerful. It has weathered terrible storms, braced against unbridled winds. It is not afraid.
The tree is not like the others. It has its own rhythm. Spring starts later for it, while all the others are already blossoming. Come late April, the new oval leaves sprout slowly, on the top and middle branches only. Otherwise, it looks dead. Gnarled, gray, and withered. It likes to pretend to be dead. That's how clever it is. Then, suddenly, like a huge explosion, all the buds flourish. The tree triumphs with its pale green crowns.”
― Tatiana de Rosnay, The Rain Watcher

“his throat, but his voice remained”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church

“You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond