People quit managers, not jobs.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

People leave managers, not companies

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

A lot of my work with the financial and helping my workers involves taking them back to their past life and helping them to understand this past.

But I regret not having liked history.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

I don't get why my fans call me yummy. I mean I'm not a sandwich!

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily.

I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you’re nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.