I would advise any startup to take the time to define their unique culture and work at making it a reality.

Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.

Habits grow from obtaining knowledge, attitude and skills.

My mother's work ethic, her attitude, and the way she treated each and every customer as if they were her best friend were better lessons than could be found in all the text books in the world.

This is great if you know all those "not to do" strategies. Sometimes you learn the "not to do's" by doing. The key is to fail forward fast. Try, fail, learn, and quickly try again.

Companies whose marketing and sales departments are not using the Internet and social media for communication may have the same fate that the dime stores had when Wal-Mart came onto the scene.

Productivity starts with doing the right things.

In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

The key is to make sure you are doing the "right things" before you worry about doing things "right".

If your values are not used as the constitution of your organization, or if they are compromised, they become just words on paper.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

It is not how many times we get lost, but how many times we seek the path, again and again, that determines our level of consciousness.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.