The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.

Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.

Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.

Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

Dreams don't come true. Plans come true!

Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.

Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong

Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour along the travel.

Everything that is born will eventually die and everything that is created will eventually be destroyed.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.

It's an honor to paint cats.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.