Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.