I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.