Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Good marketers tell a story.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.