Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

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!

Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

I tried several things and this was the only one I enjoyed doing.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

A true leader produces more leaders.