Penelope Trunk quotes:

Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.

The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.

Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert, you think while you're talking. And it's impossible to listen to someone if you are thinking of the next thing you want to say.

Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are

I think self-confidence doesn't come so much from knowing you're great as just knowing who you are.

Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.

If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new

Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.