In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count, like customer satisfaction and performance ... you thrive on that.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world ... if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions, they will be moved to act.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

Business people need to shake off the notion that information is hard to get.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

Reward worthy failure - experimentation.

At Disneyland you never go backstage even when youre in the bathroom.

I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

That's everyone's motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

The significance of man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

What are more delightful than ones emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast

It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.

That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

You need to prioritize. If you can't get to everything or do everything, that's okay.