Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
If it’s worth listening to, it’s worth questioning until you understand it.
Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
You don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you get to make every day.
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.
Go ahead, do something impossible.
The enemy of fear is creativity.
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
Being charismatic doesn’t make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
People are not afraid of failure, they’re afraid of blame.
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.