The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

These are what Herzberg’s research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong!

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.

I hate the word famous because it has no substance.

Stick around. I’m full of bad ideas.

If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.

I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.

I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.