But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

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!

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Listen first and never stop listening.

All words are prejudices.

I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.