For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

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

We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.

The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.