The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.