Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

What is reading but silent conversation.

Money is not my definition of success

You don’t have to affirm the positive after you have released a negative belief!

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.

You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.