If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

Think big. Start small.

When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Good marketers measure.

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

Great work is always shunned at first.

In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you.

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

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

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

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time -- you can adjust.