How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

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