Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

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.

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.

(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.