If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

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

The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.