"More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation."
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"All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists."
"Skepticism doesn't help you hear."
"As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art."
"Nothing about becoming indispensable is easy. If it's easy, it's already been done and it's no longer valuable."
"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."
"Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it."
"The future of marketing is leadership"
"No niche is too small if it's yours."
"Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself."
"An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time."
"If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy."
"Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself."
"When in doubt, tell yourself the truth."
"After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas."
"You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople."
"It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave."
"Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it."
"The opposite of coherent is interesting."
"The enemy of creativity is fear."