The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.