Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.

Your culture is your brand.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Whatever you're thinking, think bigger.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

Love is the best weapon.

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'

When life closes a door, God opens a window.