Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

The ends do not justify the means

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.

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

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.