John Cage

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

First they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, and then, all of a sudden, you change the world.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

Most good ideas sparkle in simplicity, so much so that everyone wonders why no one ever did that before.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

When you make a promise, keep it.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.

When you start doing what you love to do, you will never work another day in your life.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do.

You can do it all. Don’t ever let anyone limit you. As long as you are authentic to you, do you.

I’m constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don’t train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.