It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.