How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.