The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.