Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.