Hire disrespectful people.

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!

If you did not live to love, what have you live for?

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.