“For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.”

If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

There is always more information than attention.

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.

Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.

Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”

You only regret what you don’t do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

I play the radio and moon about…and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman–dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.