Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

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

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

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

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Look beneath the surface

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.