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

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry.

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.

If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.

There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.