There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.

Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

I know for sure that my daughter and wife love me.

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

I want to sing songs which will touch people's hearts.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.