Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

The key to management is to get rid of the managers.

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - "I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!"

Our sacred contract is not a literal document. That's the first thing to understand. We could think of our sacred contract as a spiritual document that our soul recognizes.

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

You either make sense or you make money.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.