If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

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 Internet Was Made For Business

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

But that’s one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.