A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.

My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.