Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.
Be big, fast and flexible.
Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte. . . ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
Strength is an empty shell.
When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart
There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn don't go together. Because advice makes love sound like some sort of cognitive activity, but we know that it isn't. We all know that it's some sort of horrible chemical reaction over which we have absolutely no control. And that's why advice doesn't work.
Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader. "