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.

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.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.

You find me a Democrat that's for cutting spending $10 and I'll give them a warm kiss.

The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.