You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.