If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In other words, you must build trust before you need it. Building trust right when you want to make a sale is just too late.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.