Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

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!

It doesn’t matter who is in control of the country, people will continue to break the law and reap the consequences.

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

I knew that whatever I set my mind to do. I could do.