A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you, ' I said to her.

You can't expect a wolf to play with you and not eventually bite.

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.

What test?" Asked Nudge. "Max, you're incorruptible." "Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased.