Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.