My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.