Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.