Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.