It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

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.

Here is a piece of advice. Never pay attention to what a man says when he comes. Anything might be blurted out at that moment, and it rarely means anything.

But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.