You stay elite by constantly moving forward.

Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

If you can build a team full of high-quality people, and you bring aboard someone who may lack qualities, they're probably likely to go in the right direction.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.

Beginning on day one, our administration went to work to tackle challenges.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Gretchen shrugged. "After seeing how he acted when she almost died, I'm starting to get why she's with him." Then her voice hardened. "And really, Leila. That's twice now.

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.

Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.