I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.
You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.
Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.
Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
Customer service is the new marketing.
I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.