My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

Our children need to see that faith matters, that it's relevant to our daily situations, that it's real.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.

Capital T truth is dead.

Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Let the punishment match the offense.

I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).