“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

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.

Fill this cup to that love that never changes, never! Fill this cup to the love that goes on living forever! To the love that has been purified by earthly woes and at last with everlasting bliss, divinely glows!

Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I’ll be honest with you, I’m tired of putting stuff on the record. I’m ready to see some real transformation and change.

I think I’ve changed a little bit. I don’t know whether it’s for the better or for the worse at the moment. I’ve settled into a different mind frame now… being a bit wilder maybe!

You’re going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.