If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

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.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.