Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

The person who fails the most wins.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.