Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

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.

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 greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

Forgiveness frees up your heart to allow more positivity into your life. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

I'm really, really emotional.

I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.

God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.