Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

I do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too.

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

A cartoon character isn't a specific person. It isn't Tom Cruise or George Clooney playing the part, it's a character that could be you. It's easier for you to get drawn into it in a special way.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.