Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?