Marketing is neither good nor evil.
Words have meaning, type has spirit.
Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.
I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.
Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
I don't think of design as a job. I think of it as - and I hate to use this term for it - more of a calling. If you're just doing it because it's a nice job and you want to go home and do something else, then don't do it, because nobody needs what you're going to make.