The fixed mindset creates the feeling that you can really know the permanent truth about yourself. And this can be comforting: You don’t have to try for such-and-such because you don’t have the talent.

Mutual emotional responsiveness is the single most essential ingredient of human relationships.

The Christian religion seems to exclude the possibility of life only when men mistake the pointing to an ideal as the laying down of a rule. It is only then that the principles presented in Christ’s teaching appear to be destructive of life. These principles, on the contrary, are the only ones that make true life possible.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.

The true opposite of depression is neither gaiety nor absence of pain, but vitality—the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.

Never invest in any company before you’ve done the homework on the company’s earnings prospects, financial condition, competitive position, plans for expansion, and so forth.

Because these really are rules. And the foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life. Period.

Our fundamental problem is that our number one customer is our number one competitor.

Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.