The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.