Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.