Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
Starbucks represents something beyond a cup of coffee.
I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.
The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.
Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.
You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.
Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.
Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.
We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.