Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.