What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.