If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.

Good business should contain something for both parties.

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke.

Signing with Hollywood Records was a dream come true. I am so blessed to get to do the things that I love to do every day of my life. My fans can expect to be blown away with the music I'm writing.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?

I really felt that I had accomplished my goals in life. My first passion has always been to be a restaurateur, a good husband and father, and to provide for my family.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.