...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.

Competent people are the most resistant to change

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.