Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation, being overtaken by low-end entrants (i.e., younger, smarter, faster workers), and fast-tracking your personal and career growth.

When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.

We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.

The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you already believe, while the more open your network, the more exposed you are to new ideas.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting.

Death by starvation is slow.

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.