The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.

If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!

To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

I would much rather have 1,000 visitors click over to my website via a podcast interview that I’ve done on someone else’s website than have 1,000 search result visitors from Google. Anyday.

Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

As you get older, you like to think you get better because you're learning more.

All things do go a-courting, In earth, or sea, or air, God hath made nothing single But thee in His world so fair.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it