If you've never given a speech before, do you want your first speech to be in front of ten thousand people or ten people? You don't want everyone to … - Jason Fried

Always keeping the door open to radical changes only invites chaos and second-guessing.

You can absolutely run a great business without a single goal. You don’t need something fake to do something real. And if you must have a goal, how about just staying in business? Or serving your customers well? Or being a delightful place to work? Just because these goals are harder to quantify does not make them any less important.

What distinguishes people who are ten times more effective than the norm is not that they work ten times as hard; it’s that they use their creativity to come up with solutions that require one-tenth of the effort.