Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to stop and try a radically different approach then to continue down the wrong route for too long.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.

We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are.

Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.