I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

Just do it.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.

Phoenix was a tougher record, a little more commercially accessible record.

Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.