Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.