You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

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.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

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