Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

A new grace for a new life is what we need in the coming year.

When you work under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you’ll be blameless.

Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.

Like any value, empathy must be acted upon.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.

The films I do always have a happy ending. I hope it reflects back to real life.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

I'll always remember Jean Paul Gaultier, who did a project based on Madonnas, remarking on the images, "Yours are much better." Gaultier is really smart, so it's good getting a compliment from him!

Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!