Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.