Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.

Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.