If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.

No man is the wiser for his learning

Isabelle, it's all right for you to be a little afraid, but you should also be very excited and joyful, too. You're about to bring a new life into this world." "I would rather Winslow do it.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

I thought you were going to break out into the running man, Carlton?

I regard myself as a true American musician, and I play every style that is my heritage.

When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.