The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.