Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.