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.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.

Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.