In a digital world, the gift I give you almost always benefits me more than it costs.

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.

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.

Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.