Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

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.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.