One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

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.

Everybody's got a true home—maybe not where they're living, butwhere their heart lives.

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born

I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.