David Johnson is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley. He has held leadership roles as General Counsel in several tech companies, public and private, and represented a range of organizations, from non-profits and NGOs, to start-ups and Fortune 100s.
David is the founder of LeanLegal™ – a pragmatic approach that solves for the concretized inefficiencies of the big-firm model. Taking a page from the lean start-up philosophy, LeanLegal brings David’s unique breadth of law and business experience into sharp focus on the client’s objective, allowing him to design and implement the most efficient path to that objective. In parallel, David continues his immersion in the Stanford milieu, including teaching courses for law and business students in basic and advanced negotiations.
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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
George Addair
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
Plutarch
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Maya Angelou
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
Les Brown
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Yoda
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
Napoleon Hill
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
Albert Einstein
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
Dalai Lama
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
Bob Dylan
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
Mother Teresa
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Stephen Covey
“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Alice Walker
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.”
Charles Swindoll
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
Prof. Albert Einstein
I once addressed, on a Christmas day many years ago, on behalf of the United Nations, an audience of about two thousand school children in London. ...in a moment of abandon, I said to them: “This is how the world goes, you are going to have to make it different, you are going to have to stop listening to your parents. If you go on obeying your parents, the world will never be a better place.”
Philosopher Jacob Bronowski
In our culture science has won the authority that makes us accept as truth its results…even if they contradict our everyday intuition.
Mathmetician Mero
Power at its peak is so quiet and obvious in its place of seized truth that it becomes, simply, truth rather than power.
Legal scholar Matsuda
Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who suffer the decisions, it [the government of India] just goes ahead and does what it wants. The people also assume that this is their lot, their karma, what was written. It's quite an efficient way of doing things.
Writer Arundhati Roy
It is illusory to think that a person has one mind... . We are not coherent. We do not always decide things reasonably. We are unaware of how we decide and even 'who' is deciding for us.
Cognitive scientist Robert Ornstein
Strangely, scientific inquiry is suggesting the need for a quasi-religious transformation of modern culture.
Biologist Paul Ehrlich
I believe that we need to review the whole of our natural philosophy in the light of scientific knowledge that has arisen in the last fifty years. It really is pointless to go on talking about what the world is like (as much of philosophy does) when the modes of perception of the world which are accessible to us have so changed in character.
Philosopher Bronowski