Competence is the enemy of change!

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

You know who you belong to, Jack?”“Yeah.”“Yourself.”He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.