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We Live In A Vague World. And It Gets Vaguer All The Time. In This Environment, The Power Of The Specific, Measurable And Useful Promise Made And Kept Is Difficult To Overstate.

Before You Tell Yourself You Have No Right To Invent This Or Improve That, Remind Yourself That The Person Before You Had No Right Either, But Did It Anyway.

It's Impossible To Have A Coin With Only One Side. You Can't Have Heads Without Tails. Innovation Is Like That. Initiative Is Like That. Art Is Like That. You Can't Have Success Unless You're Prepared To Have Failure. As Soon As You Say, 'failure Is Not An Option,' You've Just Said, 'innovation Is Not An Option.'

The Innovator Creates A Business Where They Are Making Money, Even When They Sleep.

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.