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

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.

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.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.