OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

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!

I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.

My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

Big business has no party and never shall have.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind.