If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.