Make every decision—even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone—according to what's best for your customers.

Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

Customer service is the new marketing.

Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

Do you have any coffee? (Talon) Ew! No, that stuff will kill you. I have herbal teas, though. (Sunshine) Herbal teas? That’s mulch, not a beverage. (Talon)

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.