People retire to do what I do every day.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.

God longs intensively for unhindered communication and total response between him and the believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit

Imagination is the will of things. . . .