The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.

Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.