When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.