Vision without execution is like a plane without wings, or Dumbo without ears, it just won't fly.

Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.

Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.

My mother's work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.

This is great if you know all those "not to do" strategies. Sometimes you learn the "not to do's" by doing. The key is to fail forward fast. Try, fail, learn, and quickly try again.

Companies whose marketing and sales departments are not using the Internet and social media for communication may have the same fate that the dime stores had when Wal-Mart came onto the scene.

Productivity starts with doing the right things.

In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

The key is to make sure you are doing the "right things" before you worry about doing things "right".

If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn.

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

Whenever I sign a garment with my name, I consider myself as the creator of the masterpiece.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.