Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me.

If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.