The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable.

Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

There's no map for being an artist.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

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

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.