If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.

If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.