Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

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!

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

We are here on earth for a while.

If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!

If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

I've grown out of dancing in my car - is it sad? Or I've just become a better driver!

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.