“Never outsource your core competency”

“Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you,”

“It’s more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long difficult words but rather short easy words like What about lunch?” —Winnie-the-Pooh”

“Open honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it’s not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters most.”

“There is something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.”

“happiness would confirm that the combination of physical synchrony with other humans and being part of something bigger than oneself (and thus losing momentarily a sense of self) leads to a greater sense of happiness, and that the rave scene was simply the modern-day version of similar experiences that humans have been having for tens of thousands of years.”

“Envision, create and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.”

“I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it’s because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not to see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them?”

“My advice is to stop trying to ‘network’ in the traditional business sense and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where friendship itself is a reward”

“Looking back, a big reason we hit our goal early was that we decided to invest our time, money, and resources into three key areas: customer service (which would build our brand and drive word of mouth), culture (which would lead to the formation of our core values), and employee training and development (which would eventually lead to the creation of our Pipeline Team).”

“When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.”

“The one resource we all ultimately have the same constraints on is time — so I didn't want to waste, time.”

“To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that’s above and beyond what’s expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.”

“For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny. To”

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”

“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”

“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.”

“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”

“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”

“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”

“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”

“I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.”

“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere."

"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

“Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.”

“My art and profession is to live.”

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”

“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”

“Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.”

“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.”

“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”

“I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.”

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”