Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn’t do it for money.
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing.
The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you’re now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they’re successful, so don’t waste your time copying “the successful strategies” of others.
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
You can’t have good ideas unless you’re willing to generate a lot of bad ones.
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.