Marketing begins before the product is launched.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.