I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.

Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.

Give out what you most want to come back.

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.