No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.