Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

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!

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.

Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

Build a wardrobe rather than focusing on trends.

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.