Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.

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!

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a ‘Sopranos,'

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.