Quotes about Inspiration

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants. Even

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs, but if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

O'Captain, My Captain.

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

Never a day without a line.

The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.

Lifting lives, 140 characters at a time.

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

Each time a flower blooms, the world is reminded that there is beauty in new beginnings.