A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.

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!

Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.

In a world of increasing uncertainty, expect...

I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

I haven't felt compelled to go back in the studio and do anything serious. I have a little sort of home studio thing which I potter about in occasionally.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

What you look like has nothing to do with what you think about yourself.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.