Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus.

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.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

The only real way to differentiate yourself from the competition is through service.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.