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.

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

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.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting.

The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

Inauguration Security was tighter than Kirstie Alley in a pair of spandex pants.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

I love rollercoasters, thrill-seeking, all of that is fun.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.