It’s that they come with an unavoidable flip side: every gain in personal temporal freedom entails a corresponding loss in how easy it is to coordinate your time with other people’s.

To draw an analogy: a man’s suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little.

It’s only in silence that people can truly hear themselves.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

The reason that technological progress exacerbates our feelings of impatience is that each new advance seems to bring us closer to the point of transcending our limits; it seems to promise that this time, finally, we might be able to make things go fast enough for us to feel completely in control of our unfolding time.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.

Forget about shortcuts. Run a business as if it’s forever.

I don't know what's the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Your goals must be specific, believable, challenging and demanding.