The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

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