I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.

Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.