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

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 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.

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.

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.