The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.

If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions.

You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done.