Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.