Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself