No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.

I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

Set up a life you don't need to escape from.