Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

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.

Both tears and sweat are salty. but none of them are faulty. the tears can get you somewhere, the sweat will make you only wet.

A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.