Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.