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

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

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

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.