If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.

One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.

I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.

Iowa's the worst. Iowa's just nothing, just flat as far as you can see. It's the only state in the country where you can stand on your front porch and actually watch your dog run away for three days.

If there's a heaven, it's a cold place. A dark place. A lonely place.

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day, with an artist who does inspire me.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.