If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.

Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.