Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

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!

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.