Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

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.

The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.

Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.