A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

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

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.