Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

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.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

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

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

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.

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.