Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.

Great work is always shunned at first.

The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.

Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable.