Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

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.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

...evoking memories, particularly of days gone by.

For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the pope.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.