Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer

Everyone will think it's stupid!" "Everyone says it's impossible." Guess what? Everyone works in the balloon factory and everyone is wrong.

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

There's no map for being an artist.

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.