Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.