It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.

We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.