Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.

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.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.