Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.

A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.