When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising' - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do.

Never listen to music when you’re trying go come up with a Big Idea.

The more creative you are the more trouble you’re in. You have to be courageous!

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you’re the former, you’re leading a meaningless life. If you’re the latter, keep up the good work.

Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.

If you think people are dumb, you’ll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

But I love that feeling of utter depletion: It is an ecstatic sense of having committed myself to the absolute limit. But after recharging at night, I’m ready to go the next morning. Isn’t that what life is all about?

If a man does not work passionately – even furiously – at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

Never, ever, work for bad people.

You can be cautious or you can be creative (but there's no such thing as a cautious creative).