You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.