Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.

Criticism comes to those who stand out.

The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.