It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

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

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

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