“Never settle for average.”

Customers don’t measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.

Focusing is about saying No.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

The journey is the reward.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Your customers don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.

A brand is simply trust.

The most precious resource we have is time.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences.

If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it’s a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.

I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.

Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

Be patient with me, dear heart. The art of loving is a peculiar business when one has spent an eternity hating themselves.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.