Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

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.

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.