JD Era Quotes

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

My mother taught me that an important word in any language is while. while one thing is happening so is another. While someone is in darkness another is in daylight.While person dies another is born.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

Those who believe in deathare the ones who believe we are born.The ones who understandwe are in a dream-like unknown space right now, will believe neither in death nor in life.

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual

I don't care about faces, personalities or clothes . . . I only care about the soul.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.