The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.