We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.

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.

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It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.

At twelve noon, The natives swoon And no further work is doneBut mad dogs and Englishmen, Go out in the midday sun.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.