Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again.
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
We fail when we give up too soon.
The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can’t tell me the change and you can’t tell me the someone, then you’re wasting your time.
Perhaps your challenge isn’t finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
Soon is not as good as now.
Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you’ve got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don’t start, you never get a chance.
Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can’t see it.
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
How was your day? If your answer was “fine,” then I don’t think you were leading.
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
If not enough people doubt you, you’re not making a difference.
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
Communication is the transfer of emotion.