Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

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