You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.