Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day

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.

Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.

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

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.