Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.