The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Products that are remarkable get talked about.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.

The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message