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.

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.

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!

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said "If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water"?

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.

I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other.

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.