Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.

Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

Participate as fully as possibly in the world around you.