Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want