Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.

Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

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

'How was your day?' is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.

The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

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