"It's okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does."

"And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect."

"Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you."

"Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive."

"Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."

"Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario."

"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."

"People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter."

"In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible."

"That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing."

"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."

"What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever."

"A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck. So the question is: Have you ever done that?"

"Don't be different just to be different. Be different to be better."

"Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late."

"The job is what you do when you are told what to do."

"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting."

"Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders."

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

"Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me."

"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."

"In virtually every industry the most trusted brand is also the most profitable. Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit."

"Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist."

"How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us."

"All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works."

"One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason."

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

"It's war that makes generals"

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

"And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect."

"The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about."