“Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.”

“We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in”

“Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. We have worked hard, but we've hit the wall. We have no id...”

“...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.”

“And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.”

“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Wood...”

“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”

“I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, t...”

“I had been thinking about becoming a business owner for some time, but I didn't have the confidence to pursue it. My parents encouraged the idea, and I had scoffed at them irritably. I wanted the j...”

“The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.”

“It is what we sow into people that they become”

“It bothers me when people have no problem paying for all they can eat but have problems investing in all they can be.”

“The "No Excuses" Mindset is an investment in yourself, allowing you to turn your excuses for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of ...”