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

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.

You cannot buy your way to share of voice today; you cannot buy attention anymore.

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.

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.