Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

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.

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!

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

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing... or at least" -- he strolled confidently to the door -- "Felix does.

Now, when you are aware, you see the whole process of your thinking and action, but it can happen only when there is no condemnation. That is. When I condemn something, I do not understand it.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

The facts of life are conservative.

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.