You build a brand. You can’t buy it.
You build character. You can’t inherit it.
You build relationships. You don’t click them.
The most important part of the Empire State building, or whatever you’re building, is what you can’t see.
If you’re going to be building a skyscraper career, be sure that you obsess over the foundation.
We applaud those that scrape the sky, but it’s the foundation that makes the scraping of the heavens possible.
The only way you will be able to go 100 floors high is if you are well founded 10 floors deep.
And don’t become jaded by others that are skyscraping in their careers. Stay with your foundation. Pour it and build it pillar by pillar. Live there for weeks, months, or years if you have to.
The most important part of your skyscraper will not be what is seen but what is unseen.
Ashton.Gustafson 