One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period

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!

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Books are another kind of magic.

alone but trying to survive alone.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

Sometimes just a smile on our face can help to make this world a better place.

If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.