Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.