Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

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!

Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there.

You know men. We have delicate egos.""I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.""No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos, " Simon admitted.

Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different?

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.

I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.