Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

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

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.