Don’t ask what the world needs. Rather ask - what makes you come alive? Then go and do it! Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

“Having a smoking area in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.”

At the age of 6 I wanted to be a cook.
At 7 I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the Richest People in America. And if I’m not there, I go to work.

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”

“If the rule of due measure is neglected, and great power is put into things too small — such as sails on ships, food in bodies, or authority to souls — then there is disaster.

No mortal, when young and irresponsible, will ever be able to stand in the highest ruling position on Earth without his mind being filled with foolishness, earning him the detestation of even his closest friends.

When this happens, it quickly ruins the soul itself and obliterates all of its power.”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.”

It’s easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them.

It’s not a sin to be knocked down. It’s a sin to stay down.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

- Henry Ford

It’s only fitting that the first quote I share is the one I live by.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.