In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. read more

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize read more

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

You have to believe in yourself.

You have to believe in yourself.

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the read more

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when read more

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

Be smart, but never show it.

Be smart, but never show it.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.