Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

Motivating others leads to success whereas inspiring others leads to greatness.

What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.

In the end you only answer to yourself!

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.