American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

These are what Herzberg’s research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

The things that I've been longing for were nothing but dreams.

Friends are life's ingredient that makes every sad moment sweeter, every difficult time easier, and every normal moment extraordinary.

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

Where I come from your truck is a reflection of who you are.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.