A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.