“If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be some...” — Malcolm Gladwell Quote

“If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?”

“The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.”

“Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.”

“I'm often being singled out because of who my significant other is. That's nice when his approval rating is 70 percent, not so nice when it's not.”

“What I basically do, is create a rough version of the song, and send it to the director for his approval. If they like it then I get into the process of mixing and mastering it. If they don't, then I create another version, and run that by them.”

“It's true that Americans are less than thrilled with President Obama and congressional Democrats. Their approval ratings are nothing to celebrate. But electoral politics is a zero-sum game. If one side loses, then the other side wins. Success depends on being just slightly less odious than your opponent.”