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

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.

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.

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

Let us hope for the best, let us dream and go for the quest.

One of the strangest things is the act of creation.You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instr

The words ‘drink me’ come to mind. Anyone besides me up for some heavy alcohol consumption?

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

Have character; don't be a character.

None of my problems come from the people I've killed.

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.

It is incredible, when you start believing in angels your life becomes a lot smoother.