Like A Good Parent Can't Also Be

Curiosity Is Essential For Progress. Only When We Look To Worlds Beyond Our Own Can We Really Know If There's Room For Improvement.

Starbucks Was Founded Around The Experience And The Environment Of Their Stores. Starbucks Was About A Space With Comfortable Chairs, Lots Of Power Outlets, Tables And Desks At Which We Could Work And The Option To Spend As Much Time In Their Stores As We Wanted Without Any Pressure To Buy. The Coffee Was Incidental.

Would Anybody Be Offended If We Gave A $150 Million Bonus To Gandhi? How About A $250 Million Bonus To Mother Teresa? Do We Have An Issue With That? None At All. None At All. Great Leaders Would Never Sacrifice The People To Save The Numbers. They Would Sooner Sacrifice The Numbers To Save The People.

I Find, When You're An Optimist, Life Has A Funny Way Of Looking After You.

All Organizations Start With Why, But Only The Great Ones Keep Their Why Clear Year After Year. Those Who Forget Why They Were Founded Show Up To The Race Every Day To Outdo Someone Else Instead Of To Outdo Themselves. The Pursuit, For Those Who Lose Sight Of Why They Are Running The Race, Is For The Medal Or To Beat Someone Else.