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

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.

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

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.

Reward worthy failure - experimentation.

Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Dont be condescending to unkilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Man lives in a world of meaning.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

I'd never imagined I'd become the ambassador of housewives.

I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine's Day more than diamonds!

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

Golf is all about patience - one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.

Breath is the power behind all things... I breathe in and know that good things will happen.

Every day, the sun comes out and the sky's always blue. That's what I miss about Denver.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

Sometimes what appears to be a setback is Gods mode of elevation.

Its almost like its my alter ego when I get on stage... I turn into this different person seriously. Bipolar disorder. Im tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

I think it certainly is the responsibility of the rich to support and regenerate society.

Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.

I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.