No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

These are what Herzberg’s research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

Remember that life develops what it demands - the toughest path creates the strongest warrior. Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.

Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

Avoid prologues: they can be ­annoying, especially a prologue ­following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.