The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.