Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.

I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what you’re doing

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

I'd make a bad preacher.

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

But facts are facts and flinch not.