All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.

Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.