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

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?