A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.