Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.

I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.