There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures.

Evangelism is selling a dream.

Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless."

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.