Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

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!

God promised to bless the works of our hands. If you do not work, what is God going to bless you for?

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.