I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.

You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing . But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.