Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.

The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.