You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

Confusion sets in when you're not sure if your product or service is bought or sold, or worse, if you are a salesperson just waiting for people to buy.

Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.