Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

The enemy of creativity is fear.