Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

Don't wait till you get bigger to put in place key items, such as staff surveys, peer interviewing for hiring and clear standards of behavior [developed by staff].

Conquering hills today prepares you for conquering mountains tomorrow.

May the four winds gather & disperse the strength to grant me with all the same blessings once bestowed upon the goddess of Olympus.

I have never found a painter more beautiful than his paintings nor a writer who was more expressive than his works. While one got his hands dirty, other made the paper dirty to create masterpieces!

As long as you work in a color palette and you style what you already have within that color palette, it's going to look good together.

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Do not make gods in your own images.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.