Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

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

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.

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.

Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.