No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

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.

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

The next evolution of content marketing is not more content; it's better distribution.

Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.