...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

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

The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.