Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Life Is to short to read book I am not enjoying

Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any money, you're not losing any money.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Look for the best in everybody

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.