Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.

Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God.

Individuals are told to reduce our "carbon footprint, " and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would it take me to offset one F-15 flying for an hour?

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

People forget that the church is bigger than China. It speaks more languages than the United Nations. It has more volunteers than all the NGOs in the world put together.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.