If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

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.

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.

More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.