Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

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.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

I'm crazy about Israel. It's full of life.

What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

It's just not an image I had ever put out about myself - the bedroom synth guy. The whole thing seemed ridiculous.