Systems run the business and people run the systems.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.

Faith Alone is what really matters.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.