If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
Lead by listening – to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.
If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential.
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.
You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.
Hire for attitude, train for skill.
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.
In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
Continue to study and learn new skills.
Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty.
Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.
Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.