I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

Treat employees like they make a difference and they will

It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Fear isn't in my vocabulary.

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate.

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.

I can see the warmth. He's falling for me.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.