Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

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!

Keep Holding on there's no other way to comes to the truth.

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.

Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.