If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.

Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.