Design is the last great competitive advantage.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

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