Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

Behind a great success, there was a great failure

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

When words fail, the guitar speaks.

I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

I love adventurous travel. I also love pancakes, and making pancakes for other people. You would definitely find me in the airy treetop as opposed to below ground.

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.