It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

What if Happily Ever After is a path you can choose and not The End?

All's well so long-as you don't get shot in the hind end with a twenty gauge.

Bravery is the solution to regret.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

The scent changes the way you feel about yourself, the energy, and the aura you emit, but also directly changes the way others respond to you.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

This is a software-powered world.

[Edward Snoden] has said many times that he's willing to come back and face trial if he can be guaranteed a fair trial, but the likelihood of that is so slim.